Be aware that VB has language versions and product versions (which are related to the release from Visual Studio, currently you cannot buy anymore solely VB).
The versions have been (If I forget the SP's in VB6 and VB10 which had also some minor language updates).
VB1, VB2, VB3, VB4, VB5, VB6, VB7.0, VB7.1, VB8, VB9, VB10, VB11.
The visual studio versions were since 1998
'98(contains VB6), .Net (Contains VB7.0), .Net 2003 (Contains VB 7.1), 2005 (the Net name was removed, version 2005 contains VB8), 2008 (contains VB9), '10(Contains VB10), 2012(Contains VB11)
So the by you called VB7 exist already a long time. As program language there was a major change between VB6 and VB7, but those ware not more than between VB5 ane VB6. The main differences are however that VB7 relies on .Net technology and VB6 and before
on Com technology and the value types were updated one step. Integer became for instance Int32.
The language changes however between VB6 and VB11 are much less then those which were between VB1 and VB6.
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