Summary
Visual Studio 7 and VB7 will likely include new Web features that make this technique unwarranted, but a mature version of VB7 won't be available for another year. Even when it is released, I'm guessing that the underlying mechanism will be very similar to this technique, but hopefully more automated. So, while I'm waiting for VB7 to be released, I'll continue to develop Web applications using this technique, and avoid the problems associated with ASP and scripting languages.