Intended for readers who have little previous experience of VB, Building Distributed Applications with Visual Basic merge. NET basic comprehensive tour. Programming VB NET with excellent material on the support for Web services in an organized neat tutorial that will benefit many readers. Although the title might suggest that this text focuses exclusively on high-end world of distributed computing, this book managed to cover a lot of good basic VB NET programming. First. Focus on what's new in VB continues with a good explanation of structured exception handling (compared with standard older On Error) and the new ADO.NET APIs for databases. It may surprise you that the Web service is not only a way to do distributed computing in VB. NET. Part of COM + / NET shows how interoperability. Both standard components can coexist. Later sections in this book concentrates on VB NET that is used by ASP.NET for Web programming., With the good coverage of new Web services. Another way to expand coverage. NET with Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ) and Active Directory shows how NET components. can take full advantage of advanced features that are available on the Windows platform with less complexity than with the older COM / COM + standard. All in all, this text is not justice to the rich array of options to get the VB. NET components to play well with others, whether the entire Web or on the same server.