• Microsoft's .NET Framework provides a number of languages,
• that interoperate, initially only for most varieties of Microsoft Windows.
• Microsoft also have an integrated development environment (IDE) called Visual Studio.NET.
• This product not only makes it easy to produce code for standalone programs (such as console applications and windows forms applications)
• but also makes it easy to produce code that can be executed by IIS (Microsoft's web server software).
• The latter possibility not only allows the creation of dynamically generated WWW pages,
• but also the ability to offer web services,
• i.e., to provide methods that can be called by programs running elsewhere in the world.
• Microsoft are providing .NET compilers for many languages including the latest version of Visual Basic called Visual Basic.NET.
• The aim of this talk is to introduce the ideas of object-oriented programming using Visual Basic.NET.