Details how to migrate Visual Basic Web applications to Visual Basic.NET


The changes in Visual Basic.NET are so extensive that Web applications written in ASP and VB 6.0 or earlier will not work with the new platform. In this book, expert and Microsoft Regional Director Ken Spencer takes readers through the steps of transforming VB 6.0 Web applications into VB.NET applications. He introduces the new features of VB.NET and ASP.NET, and explains how to prepare existing VB Web applications for the migration to Microsoft's .NET platform. He then discusses Microsoft's vision for components, which is a key transition for VB.NET. Spencer also includes a sample VB 6.0 Web application to detail every phase and every tier of the migration process.


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Companion Web site features all the complete source code for the applications and examples built in the book.


.NET Platform: The next big overhaul to Microsoft's technologies that will bring enterprise distributed computing to the next level by fully integrating the Internet into the development platform. This will allow interaction between any machine, on any platform, and on any device.


Visual Basic.NET: The update to this popular visual programming language will offer greater Web functionality, more sophisticated object-oriented language features, links to Microsoft's new common runtime, and a new interface.


ASP.NET: A programming framework (formerly known as Active Server Pages) for building powerful Web-based enterprise applications; can be programmed using VB.NET or C#.


C#: Microsoft's new truly object-oriented programming language that builds on the strengths of C++ and the ease of Visual Basic; promises to give Sun's Java a run for its money.