Summary

In this chapter, you saw how you can build inheritable forms, Visual Basic .NET's equivalent of template classes in FoxPro, thereby achieving the same rapid prototyping capability. You've seen how you can support both local tables and SQL Server with no change in the form code.

In Chapter 5, "Adding Internet Access," we'll extend these two models to include support for XML Web Services so that you can offer your clients the ability to run their rich client applications over the Internet.