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ok, my cousin was recently hired on as a programmer at some company. i dont know all the details, but he needs to learn VB.Net, and ASP.Net. can you use a vb.net app on a webpage? yes i realize that is probably a stupid question, but i dont know much about the use of vb.net

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VB.NET can be used as the code behind language of the ASP.NET web application.

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What he said.

A little more detail: ASP.NET 2.0 and newer splits the pages into two parts, markup and code-behind (ASP.NET 1.x had them in the same file so the following still applies). The markup is just basically HTML with a bunch of ASP tags thrown in that get interpreted server-side. The code-behind is C# or VB code to actually do the server side logic (think of how PHP is server-code embedded in an HTML document, except with ASP it's preferred to keep the code in a separate file). With recent versions of .NET, you can also use IronPython and IronRuby for the code-behind.

Silverlight and WPF are similar to this. The UI is actually defined in a XAML document (basically another XML file) and the actual code for each control is in a code-behind page. (other than that, they're not really the same at all, but I thought I'd throw in the repeated use of the code-separation pattern.)

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I think another option for the code-behind is J#.

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Eww.

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J# or C#

www.asp.net, watch the videos under the "Learn" area of the site. Very helpful.

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J# support has been dropped.

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I've never even tried to use J#; can't think of one thing it offers that netbeans or jedit won't do. But it's the only java option for ASP.net isn't it (or wasn't it)?

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Never used it myself, but I think it wasn't really Java either. But it's dead, and my co-workers rejoice, so it must be a change for the better.