Visual Basic in CGI and ASP

I'm looking to make some components for a future website in Visual Basic, trouble is I have no idea how it is done. I can't get hold of a trial for VB.NET, and I don't know how to develop CGI scripts in VB either.

Can you clear this up? I don't know what the relation between ASP and VB is either.

While you can do direct CGI with VB (search the forums, I've posted an example before), you need to use the API to do most of the CGI work and VB and CGI itself are kinda slow.

Depending on what you want to do, your VB activex dlls can be accessed by ASP. ASP can also be coded in VBScript, which is a lot like VB, except missing many useful functionality. You can code ASP in JScript or PerlScript or several other languages (anything besides VBscript and Jscript needs to be installed).

thats a good discssiion....
well how do i call VB dll or a exe from ASP..??
more clarity pls

Kittu

Server.CreateObject("YourVBProjectName.YourClassName") for a DLL.