VB.NET Advanced Programming

Author: Fred Barwell, Richard Blair, translated by Zhang Jiarong
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Visual Basic .NET is the new version of Visual Basic and a key component of Microsoft's .NET strategy. Compared to previous versions of VB, VB.NET has made a significant leap, becoming more flexible and powerful. Microsoft has incorporated many new features into VB.NET, among which the most important are the complete implementation of object-oriented programming and the greatly enhanced Web design capabilities. The main content of this book includes: the .NET Framework and the Common Language Runtime (CLR), inheriting from base classes to create derived classes, handling errors using the Try...Catch...Finally structure, namespaces, accessing data with ADO.NET, creating Windows applications and customizing Windows controls, combining COM and ActiveX components, creating Windows services, accessing information on the Web with VB.NET, and securing applications and code using tools provided in the .NET Framework SDK. This book is primarily intended for intermediate to advanced VB developers who wish to learn VB.NET and the .NET Framework.