Review

This book provides exhaustive coverage of everything you need to know in order to master the latest .NET version of Visual Basic. The book is designed for readers of all levels from experienced programmers to those with little or no programming experience. It does so by providing beginners with basic underlying good programming skills, while at the same time offering experinced developers detailed and exhaustive coverage of the Visual Basic .NET language.

By simply flipping through the pages of this book, it becomes evident that an enormous amount of time and effort went into it. It offers the same high quality and detailed coverage that you would find in most college level academic books. The book's 1500 plus pages include over 2100 lines of carefully commented code, hundreds of programs with screens shots, and over 400 programming tips. All of the code is presented in full color as it would appear on a color monitor. Each chapter provides extensive self-review exercises which are designed to build confidence with the new material.

More experienced Visual Basic developers can use the book to quickly master the new powerful features of .NET, such as, Web Services and ASP.NET, Web Forms, Object-Oriented Programming, XML, Multithreading, and ADO.NET.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to master this latest version of Visual Basic. You may read other reviews for this book at Amazon.com, they are all excellent.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction to Computers, Internet and Visual Basic .NET 1
2 Introduction to the Visual Studio .NET IDE
3 Introduction to Visual Basic Programming
4 Control Structures: Part 1
5 Control Structures: Part 2
6 Procedures
7 Arrays
8 Object-Based Programming
9 Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
10 Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
11 Exception Handling
12 Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 1
13 Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 2
14 Multithreading
15 Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions
16 Graphics and Multimedia
17 Files and Streams
18 Extensible Markup Language (XML)
19 Database, SQL and ADO .NET
20 ASP .NET, Web Forms and Web Controls
21 ASP .NET and Web Services
22 Networking: Streams-Based Sockets and Datagrams
23 Data Structures and Collections
24 Accessibility

Appendix
A Operator Precedence Chart
B Number Systems (on CD)
C Career Opportunities (on CD)
D Visual Studio .NET Debugger
E ASCII Character Set
F Unicode (on CD)
G COM Integration (on CD)
H Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part 1 (on CD)
I Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part 2 (on CD)
J Introduction to XHTML: Part 1 (on CD)
K Introduction to XHTML: Part 2 (on CD)
L HTML/XHTML Special Characters
M HTML/XHTML Colors
N Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET
Bibliography
Index

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