Review

This book is for experienced developers who need to make the transition to VB.NET. It will also help programmers with previous knowledge of VB.NET who want to move up to the professional level.

The book begins with an introduction to the .NET Framework and common language RunTime(CLR). The CLR is responsible for managing the execution of code compiled for the .NET platform. The next few chapters focus on object oriented programming and how to derive classes from base classes using inheritance. Chapter 9 gives a detailed discussion on how error handling works in VB.NET by discussing the CLR exception handler in detail and the new Try...Catch...Finally structure. An entire chapter is devoted to multi-threading. You will learn how threads can be created, and the differences between multitasking and multi-threading. Chapter 16 discusses COM and .NET component interoperability, and the tools provided to help link the two technologies together. Chapter 18 gives detailed coverage of the ADO.NET data access technology. You will learn how to build flexible, fast, and scalable data access objects and applications.

The final chapters discuss building web applications with web forms, creating custom controls for Windows Forms and Web Forms, and finally, creating and consuming Web Services.

If you're an experienced VB developer and would like to make the transition to VB.NET, then this book is a must.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: What is Microsoft .NET?
Chapter 2: Introducing VB.NET and VS.NET
Chapter 3: The Common Language Runtime
Chapter 4: Variables and Types
Chapter 5: Object Syntax Introduction
Chapter 6: Inheritance and Interfaces
Chapter 7: Applying Objects and Components
Chapter 8: Namespaces
Chapter 9: Error Handling
Chapter 10: Using XML in VB.NET
Chapter 11: Data Access with ADO.NET
Chapter 12: Windows Forms
Chapter 13: Creating Windows Controls
Chapter 14: Web Forms
Chapter 15: Creating Web Controls
Chapter 16: Data Binding
Chapter 17: Working with Classic COM and Interfaces
Chapter 18: Component Services
Chapter 19: Threading
Chapter 20: Remoting
Chapter 21: Windows Services
Chapter 22: Web Services
Chapter 23: VB.NET and the Internet
Chapter 24: Security in the .NET Framework
Chapter 25: Assemblies and Deployment
Appendix A: Using the Visual Basic Compatibility Library

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