2.4. Interface Between Visual Basic and the Internet

In this section, we want to give readers a basic introduction to the interface between Visual Basic and Internet applications. Visual Basic provides a good environment to connect to Internet applications. For example, VBScript can be embedded into a regular HTML file and can be called and executed by a Web browser.

This section is organized in the following sequence. First, we provide a basic introduction to Internet applications, which gives readers a fundamental picture of Internet programming. Then, a detailed description of developing a DHTML application step by step is provided. We discuss a simple example and build the explanation on the preceding detailed description. An advanced DHTML ...

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