WebClasses are a necessary, but not sufficient, first step in extending Visual Basic to the Internet. The applications you write with VB today are not as powerful as C++, not as network aware or as portable as Java applications, and not as integrated with IIS as Active Server Pages. However, they do provide the most powerful debugging features ever delivered for Internet programming—and they do it without major changes to the most popular programming language ever invented.
WebClasses are infants, and infants have teething problems. But I think that Microsoft will continue to improve WebClasses—or at least the idea behind WebClasses—into the foreseeable future.
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