Big Changes in Visual Basic .NET
Visual Basic .NET includes a large number of major enhancements since the previous version, Visual Basic 6.0. We will discuss these enhancements throughout this book. Some of these enhancements, which are part of the complete overhaul of Visual Studio (Visual Basic’s parent product), include the following:
Web Forms— allow you to build Web pages to run in client browsers
Web Services— run on Web servers to be invoked across the Internet or an intranet
Server Explorer— provides an easy-to-use interface to server-based components
Visual Component Designer— assists in creating server-side components
In addition, Visual Basic itself has received a number of much-needed improvements, including
Inheritance— allows ...
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