In Brief
This chapter presented a detailed overview of the new Windows client development model in Visual Basic .NET. Here are the important points of this chapter:
Windows forms is the new forms model for Visual Basic. Although it is similar to the forms model for Visual Basic 6.0, it supports many new features.
In .NET, you can see and sometimes edit all of the code that creates and configures your user interface.
Event handling in .NET is no longer based on the name of the event-handler procedure, instead a new Handles keyword has been added.
Form layout is more powerful in .NET than in VB6 due to the addition of new features for docking and anchoring.
There are no default instances of forms in VB .NET, which means you cannot work with the form's name as if it were always available.
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