Obtaining Visual Basic .NET
Microsoft distributes the Visual Basic .NET language and compiler without charge. You can obtain it by installing the .NET Framework SDK as the section "Preparing for .NET Windows Applications" earlier in this chapter described.
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If a copy of the Microsoft Web server—Internet Information Services—is present, installing the .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) will also install Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) .NET. At that point, you could use Notepad, another text editor, or even Microsoft FrontPage 2002 to create ASP.NET pages.
What’s missing from the .NET Framework SDK is an integrated development environment (IDE). An IDE is a cohesive set of development tools unified into a single graphical application; ...
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