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Visual Basic .NET Kick Start is a rapid-progression tutorial that presents Visual Basic .NET to working programmers already familiar with another programming language or tool. This book speeds through basic concepts and focuses on practical examples showing the advantages of Visual Basic .NET in ASP programming, application design and creation, and .NET Web Services development. Because previous versions of Visual Basic are so prevalent, this book pays special attention to issues developers face when moving from VB to VB.NET. Although Visual Basic .NET Kick Start assumes no knowledge of the .NET Framework, it skips the handholding and basic programming instruction associated with entry-level tutorials. Full of code examples, tips, and professional insights, this book is about maximum payoff with minimum effort for the working programming who wants to use Visual Basic .NET now.
Introduction.
What Is .NET?
What has Changed from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET?
What This Book Covers.
1. Introducing Visual Basic .NET 2003.
Getting Ready to Code. Introducing the New IDE. Creating Your First Windows Application. In Brief.
Key Changes. New and Changed “Option” Statements. Changes to Variable Declaration. Arrays. Data Type Changes. Miscellaneous Changes. References, Namespaces, and Imports. Should You Use Existing Visual Basic Syntax or the New .NET Equivalents? In Brief.
The Way Things Were. The Windows Forms Model. Handling Events in .NET. Coding Without Control Arrays. Configuring Your Form for Resizing. Programming Without Default Form Instances. Working with Multiple Forms in VB .NET. In Brief.
The Way Things Were. Using Streams. Reading and Writing to Streams. Reading and Writing to a Text File. Working with the File System. Using Structured Exception Handling Instead of On Error. In Brief.
Working with Data. What's New in ADO.NET? Retrieving Data. Data Binding in Windows Forms. Using the CurrencyManager to Manage your Data Binding. Formatting Bound Data. In Brief.
Data: What's Next? Learning the Inner Workings of ADO.NET. Updating Data. Advanced Data Topics. In Brief.
What Is Object-Oriented Programming and Why Is it Important? New OOP Features in Visual Basic .NET. In Brief.
Control Development Changes in .NET. Extending Through Inheritance. Combining Controls. Drawing Your Own Interface. Creating Non-Visual Controls. In Brief.
COM and .NET Interoperability. Important COM Interop Concepts. Accessing COM Objects from Visual Basic .NET. Using ActiveX Controls on VB .NET Forms. Exposing VB .NET Objects to COM Clients. Some Additional Considerations. In Brief.
What Makes These Topics Advanced? Introducing ASP.NET and Web Forms. Using XML in Visual Basic .NET. Learning About Web Services. In Brief.
Deciding Whether to Upgrade. Planning Your Upgrade. The Code Advisor for Visual Basic 6.0. Resolving Architectural Issues. Upgrading. Summary.