Visual Basic and .NET application development

Author: Robert J. Oberg
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This book is designed for experienced programmers, helping developers quickly understand how to use VB.NET and delve deeper into the .NET framework. The examples used throughout the book are comprehensive, with detailed steps and thorough analysis, making them very practical for professional project work. This book is an excellent reference for intermediate to advanced VB.NET developers, divided into six parts: Part 1 introduces an overview of Visual Basic .NET, answering what Microsoft .NET is and providing the programming model of the .NET framework; Part 2 covers VB.NET programming language, discussing changes in data types and new object-oriented features in VB.NET, as well as analyzing interactions between VB.NET and the .NET framework. Part 3 introduces the basics of Windows Forms. Part 4 covers important foundational content in the .NET framework, discussing assemblies, deployment, and .NET framework classes, and introduces metadata, serialization, threading, properties, asynchronous programming, remoting, and memory management. Part 5 discusses advanced UI programming topics using VB.NET. Part 6 covers several key components of the .NET framework, such as ADO.NET, ASP.NET, SOAP, and web services, security issues, and interactions between .NET and previous COM and Win32 applications.