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Introduction Visual Basic (VB) developers need to get ready for the biggest transition they've ever had to make. The next VB (probably called Visual Basic.NET) is designed to make web development as drag-and-drop easy as VB1 made Windows development. VB will be integrated into a completely new architecture called Microsoft.NET, which is Microsoft's next generation platform for Windows and Internet software development. It's hard to overstate the importance of Microsoft.NET. In his keynote speech at the Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) in Orlando this year, Bill Gates stated that a transition like this only comes along once every five or six years. The last comparable shifts were the migration from 16-bit to 32-bit development, and to COM technologies. The result is huge changes. On the plus side, VB gets wonderful new capabilities for web development, object-orientation, error handling, threading control, and much more. On the downside, numerous syntax incompatibilities will cause the migration from older versions to be complex and painful.