Businesses continue to move their operations onto computer networks, and increasingly the public Internet. Microsoft has attempted to integrate complete World Wide Web support into all of their development tools, with limited results. VB.NET, scheduled for release in early 2002, takes a much bigger stride in this direction, in part by making VB a supported language for Active Server Pages, and by providing support for [web services]?, allowing remote functions to be called over the Internet as easily as functions on the local machine. |
Businesses continue to move their operations onto computer networks, and increasingly the public Internet. Microsoft has attempted to integrate complete World Wide Web support into all of their development tools, with limited results. VB.NET, scheduled for release in early 2002, takes a much bigger stride in this direction, in part by making VB a supported language for Active Server Pages, and by providing support for [web services]?, allowing remote functions to be called over the Internet as easily as functions on the local machine. VB.net will compile the code to a virtual machine. |