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For introductory and intermediate courses on Visual Basic programming offered in departments of Computer Science, CIS, MIS, IT, Business, Engineering, and Continuing Education.
Teach Visual Basic .NET programming from the ground up! The introduction of Microsoft's .NET Framework marks the beginning of major revisions to all of Microsoft's programming languages. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest version of Visual Basic—Visual Basic .NET—which features extensive updates and increased functionality. Visual Basic .NET How to Program covers introductory programming techniques as well as more advanced topics, featuring enhanced treatment of developing Web-based applications.
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The authoritative DEITEL™ LIVE-CODE™ introduction to Windows®, .NET, Internet and World Wide Web programming in Visual Basic® .NET
This exciting new Second Edition of the Deitels' best-selling Visual Basic textbook carefully explains how to use Visual Basic .NET—a premier language in Microsoft's new .NET initiative—as a general-purpose programming language and how to program multi-tier, client/server, database-intensive, Internet- and Web-based .NET applications.
Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally-recognized corporate-training and content-creation organization specializing in Visual Basic® .NET, C#, Visual C++® .NET, Java™, C++, C, XML™, Python, Perl; Internet, Web, wireless, e-business and object technologies. The Deitels are the authors of several worldwide #1 programming-language textbooks, including Java How to Program, 4/e, C++ How to Program, 3/e and Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, 2/e.
In Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e, the Deitels and their colleague, Tem. R. Nieto, discuss topics you need to build complete .NET, Web-based applications, including:
- .NET Introduction/IDE/Debugger
- Control Structures/Procedures/Arrays
- Classes/Data Abstraction/Strings
- OOP/Inheritance/Polymorphism
- Methods/Properties/Events/Delegates
- Data Structures/Collections/Unicode®
- Database/ADO.NET/SQL
- Assemblies/Modules/Exceptions
- GUI/Forms/Controls/Visual Inheritance
- Web Services/ASP.NET/Web Forms
- XML/XSLT™/DOM™/DTD/Schema
- VoiceXML™/Regular Expressions
- Files/Streams/Multimedia/Graphics/GDI+
- Multithreading/Client-Server/Networking
- Session Tracking/Cookies/Accessibility
- HTML 4/XHTML™/COM Integration
Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e includes extensive pedagogic features:
- Hundreds of LIVE-CODE™ programs with screen captures that show exact outputs
- Extensive World Wide Web and Internet resources to encourage further research
- Hundreds of tips, recommended practices and cautions—all marked with icons
Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e is the centerpiece of a complete family of resources for teaching and learning Visual Basic .NET, including several Web sites (www.deitel.com and www.prenhall.com/deitel) with the book's source-code examples (which are also on the enclosed CD) and other information for faculty, students and professionals; an optional interactive CD (Visual Basic .NET Multimedia Cyber Classroom, 2/e) containing hyperlinks, solutions to half the book's exercises and audio walkthroughs of the book's code examples; and e-mail access to the authors at:
deitel@deitel.com
For information on worldwide Deitel on-site seminars and to subscribe to the Deitel Buzz e-mail newsletter, visit:
www.deitel.com
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