This article discusses the important language changes from VB6/VBScript to VB.NET. When creating ASP.NET pages, you are required to use a .NET-compatible programming language, such as C#, VB.NET, or JScript.NET. However, there are some significant changes from VB6/VBScript to VB.NET, which this article addresses. More info

Unpublished chapter from VB.NET Class Design Handbook - Inheritance More info

This article discusses the event handling model in .NET using VB.NET More info

This step-by-step article demonstrates how to add multiple levels of nodes to a Microsoft Internet Explorer TreeView WebBrowser control by using a DataSet object that includes multiple tables. More info

This step-by-step article describes how to use the COM+ Application Install Wizard that ships with the Component Services console in Microsoft Windows XP Professional to expose and consume a legacy Microsoft Visual Basic COM component as a Web service. More info

This article demonstrates how to use the Process object to start another process and receive a notification after that process has exited. The Process object, which is located in the System.Diagnostics namespace, exposes the Exited event. By handling this event, you are notified when the process that you launch has exited. Because you are using an event to accomplish this task, this notification process is asynchronous. More info

This step-by-step article describes how to debug client-side script in a Microsoft ASP.NET application by using Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft Script Debugger. Visual Basic .NET provides a number of new debugging features that enable you to more easily identify and diagnose problems in your code. More info

This article demonstrates how to marshal an object by reference to a remote server. When you marshal an object by reference, the runtime creates a transparent proxy so that the server can make calls back to the object on the client. The only thing that is sent to the server is the proxy. The proxy marshals the call backs to the client. More info

One of the first hurdles you're going to come up against when you move from VB.OLD to VB.NET is getting to grips with the new ways of dealing with forms. Your approach to forms in VB.NET is fundamentally different and hinges on the fact that the Framework implements forms as classes, so now you need an object variable to instantiate it. This article is aimed at helping you through some of those basic steps. More info

Web service is one of the greatest technologies in the Internet world; it can be used to connect businesses with each other and clients in a standard way using XML (Extensible Markup Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language) and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration). More info