Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference)

Accelerate your productivity with Visual Basic® .NETand quickly create powerful Win32® applications and high-performance, scalable applications for the Webwith this indispensable tutorial and reference. Building on the success of the author’s popular programming book for Visual Basic 6.0, this new book teaches you the best practices for porting and reusing existing Visual Basic code in the .NET Framework as well as for exploiting the language’s advanced new object-oriented capabilities. It covers the common language runtime (CLR), multithreaded programs, Windows® Forms applications, GDI+ graphic programming, Windows services, ADO.NET classes for database programs, ASP.NET Web Forms, and Web Services. It includes advanced optimization techniques and tips for leveraging the power of the Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET environment.

Topics covered include:

Getting started with Visual Basic .NET
Modules, variables, and error handling
Object-oriented features, including inheritance
Delegates and attributes
Arrays, lists, and collections
Files, directories, and streams
Object serialization
Regular expressions
Threading
Assemblies and AppDomains
Reflection
Windows Forms applications and GDI+
Windows Forms custom control creation
Windows services
ADO.NET
XML
ASP.NET Web Forms applications
User controls and custom controls
XML Web services

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CD-ROM features:

A fully searchable electronic copy of PROGRAMMING MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6.0
Sample applications written in Visual Basic .NET

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