VB.NET

Visual basic .NET enable you to create rich application for Microsoft Windows in less time, incorporate data access from a wider range of database scenarios, create components with minimal code, and build web-based application using your exiting skills.

Powerful windows-based applications in less time.
 
It helps build more robust windows-based applications with less code.

Web-based applications:

Helps to create web solutions in visual basic.NET using the shared web forms designer and HTML designer

Flexible, simplified data access:

Offers support to tackle any data access scenario easily with Microsoft ADO.NET and Microsoft Active X Data objects (ADO) data access. 

Improved coding :

It brings a multitude of enhancements to the code editor, including enhanced intellisence , smart listing of code for greater readability , squiggles , and a background compiler for realtime notification of syntax .