Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET) provides a very intuitive Web development environment for Visual Basic developers. VB developers have been trained for years to drag and drop their visual interface on the design surface and then double-click on an element when they want to write code that controls it. I think one of the crowning achievements of VS.NET is the way that it has taken the Windows software design and message loop paradigm and mapped them to a stateless environment like the Web. Once you begin writing production applications, you quickly find that the mapping isn't perfect, but VS.NET's ability to bring Windows programmers into Web development quickly is nothing short of remarkable.
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