Visual Basic .NET Programming Bible

Author: Li Wei
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book is rich in content and authoritative, introducing you to the wonderful features that make you compelled to upgrade from VB6 to VB.NET. With numerous code examples and detailed explanations of features, it helps you quickly master VB.NET, a leading language in the .NET domain. New features such as inheritance, interfaces, overloading, and structured exception handling make Visual Basic.NET a true object-oriented language and enable it to compete with "cousins" or "rivals" on the battlefield. Open this book, and the will unfold before your eyes. This book provides a detailed introduction to how to use the Visual Basic.NET programming language to write various types of programs. Since Visual Basic.NET is the most significant upgrade to Visual Basic to date, the book first introduces the differences between Visual Basic.NET and Visual Basic 6. It then covers the new features that make Visual Basic.NET a true object-oriented language, such as inheritance, interfaces, overloading, and overriding. Structured exception handling and managed code are also key aspects of this revision. After laying this technical foundation, the book later introduces data access technologies, as well as the development of Windows Forms, Web Forms, and Web Services.