.NET Talk

Erl is probably one of the least known features in VB6. There is a very strong possibility that you have never even heard its name. I stumbled upon it a few months back while trying to get something on error handling mechanisms in VB6.

One of the key features provided by Microsoft Visual Studio is the ability to create and run Windows Services. Unlike earlier languages like Visual Basic 6 or C++ where you had to call several API functions and take care of cross language data-type conversions, the .Net Framework provides all the tools required to create a Windows service at one place.

In order to fully grasp the .NET framework, it is important to understand why the need to create the .NET framework arose, and what were the driving forces behind it.