Publisher's Synopsis
What you need to know
This book is primarily aimed at experienced Visual Basic® developers who are looking for an introduction to Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Framework.
What you will learn from this book
This book explains the underlying philosophy and design of the .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime, and details the differences between Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET.
You will learn how to:
- Develop applications and components using Visual Studio® .NET
- Effectively apply inheritance and interfaces when designing objects and components
- Organize your code using namespaces
- Handle errors using the Try...Catch...Finally structure
- Access data using ADO.NET and bind controls to the underlying data sources
- Create Windows applications and custom Windows controls
- Interoperate with COM and ActiveX components
- Create transactional and queuing components
- Use .NET Remoting to exchange serialized objects between clients and servers
- Create Windows Services
- Use Visual Basic .NET to access information on the Web
- Create and consume Web Services
- Secure your applications and code using the tools provided in the .NET Framework SDK
- Arrange your applications and libraries in assemblies and deploy them using Visual Studio .NET
