Mastering Visual Basic .NET

Evangelos Petroutsos9780782128772, 0-7821-2877-7

Visual Basic .NET is much more than an update of VB 6: It’s now a fully object-oriented language that takes advantage of Microsoft’s new, feature-rich .NET framework. Mastering Visual Basic .NET is a comprehensive treatment of the language and the framework, from the beginning steps to advanced application development. You’ll find detailed tutorials combined with practical, real-world projects and a vast amount of reference material to get you up and running with VB .NET in no time. To shorten the learning curve for experienced VB 6 programmers, this book contains dozens of special notes describing the differences between the old and the new ways of doing things. Mastering Visual Basic .NET thoroughly covers the development environment, language elements, object-oriented programming, and the .NET framework, along with such advanced topics as database programming and web programming. It’s everything you need to become a VB .NET expert.