Conclusion

Conclusion

At this point you should have at least a basic understanding of how to implement the core distributed technologies and where the relative strengths of remoting and XML Web services lie. Traditionally, developing distributed applications has required a lot of work on the part of the developer. Microsoft started to make things a great deal easier with the introduction of Microsoft Transaction Services (MTS) and RDS. The .NET platform takes the process to a whole new level. With objects that support the innate capability of serialization and protocol abstraction, you are free to concentrate more on the architecture and design of your applications rather than spend time on network and marshaling issues.

Moving forward, you need to think carefully about what type of solution will fit well with your application. It is possible, and sometimes desirable, to maintain some components in Visual Basic 6 rather than moving the entire application to Visual Basic .NET. Don t feel pressured to make unnecessary changes just to be pure .NET. Visual Basic .NET provides the groundwork for developing whole new classes of distributed applications, but this need not be at the expense of your existing applications.