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by Fred Barwell (Author), Richard Blair (Author), Richard Case (Author), Jonathan Crossland (Author), Bill Forgey (Author), Whitney Hankison (Author), Billy S. Hollis (Author), Rockford Lhotka (Author), Tim McCarthy (Author), et al (Author) ".NET is designed to provide a new environment within which you can develop almost any application to run on Windows (and possibly in the future..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 1012 pages
  • Publisher: WROX Press Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 April 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1861007167
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861007162
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.7 x 5.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Visual Basic .NET is the next version of Visual Basic and a major part of Microsoft's .NET initiative. Responding to pressure from the VB community, VB.NET is a significant upgrade that is far more flexible and powerful than previous versions. Microsoft has introduced a number of new features, not least a move to full object-oriented programming and greatly enhanced web design facilities.


This comprehensive book takes an in-depth look at the new and enhanced features of VB.NET and provides the professional programmer with the knowledge needed to build real-world applications and fully utilize the power of VB.NET.


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An introduction to the .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime (CLR)

Deriving classes from base classes using inheritance

Handling errors with the Try...Catch structure

Developing multi-threaded applications

COM and .NET component interoperability

Accessing data with ADO.NET and XML

Building web applications with Web Forms

Creating custom controls for Windows Forms and Web Forms

Creating and consuming Web Services


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This book is primarily aimed at experienced Visual Basic developers who want to make the transition to VB.NET. It will also be of benefit to programmers with a good grounding in VB.NET who want to step up to a professional level.

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!, 17 Dec 2002
By M. Macey (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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If you are an existing VB6 developer looking to move into .NET, this book is really worthwhile. It gives a good overview of the CLR, then moves into real object programming. The descriptions of inheritance are great (lots to learn here), and examples are compared to VB6 along the way. There is an introduction to XML/XSL, and a chapter on ADO.NET.This is excellent, showing how to build a data abstraction layer. I especially enjoyed the chapters on COM/.NET interop and COM+. The best thing about this book is that you can read it cover to cover, or jump into the sections that are of more interest without losing the thread. For under 1000 pages I think they have produced a top class product. It may not delve into miniscule detail ,but it will certainly give you more than enough to start writing productive applications. In many cases I found myself querying their explanations, only to find a clarification slightly further into the text. I get the feeling they know exactly what you want to know, and how to deliver it. Superb!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A book of extremes, 28 April 2004
By B. Eaton "twiglet27" (Telford, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional VB.NET (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
The greatest strength and also the greatest weakness of this book, is thatit consists of a lot of authors covering a lot of ground. In the case oflaying the foundations for understanding the .NET Framework, it does anexcellent job. The explanations of the architectural thinking thatunderlies .NET and the CLR (Common Language Runtime) are excellent andinformative. If you're coming from VB6 to VB.NET then you really need toknow this information. In fact most of the more abstract (sic) topics aredelivered well along with great chapters on XML, ASP.NET, ADO.NET and (joyof joys) Component Services.
The traditional areas of VB however, are another story. Two areas wherethis book fell down for me (particulary given it being my raison d'etrefor purchasing) was in the area of Data Binding and Windows Forms. Thechapters on these topics are extremely poor in content. True, I'm comingat this book as someone who has spent the last three months living XML WebServices and a year's experience of ASP.NET behind that, but vitalinformation is missing. In the Windows Forms section there is allusion tothe life cycle of Forms at runtime without any suggestion of the best wayto handle this in your applications! This is analogous to explaining whattransmission does in a car without bothering to explain how the clutch isused. The data binding section whets the appetite with datagrids thenfails to actually deliver anything useful (like how to bind specificcolumns).
There is however a wealth of information here which should be good atgetting anybody not writing rich client applications up to speed. VB6developers that haven't yet moved to .NET really should read this for thewindow (sic) it opens up on the .NET world. It's worth keeping as areference and would have got 5 stars but for the nearly useless DataBinding and Windows Forms chapters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best book, 27 Jun 2002
This book is very good; I take you into the dept off VB.NET. And it shows you how you can do things. It also gives you many small examples; you can jump into any part off the book read a section and do the example without have to do other examples as well. After you have been reading it you can use the book as reference material, because it goes into depths.
A other thing about this book is that you can actual read it without have to test the solutions or be sitting in front off a PC, so you can basically read it on a holiday.
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