Programming Visual Basic .NET: Core Reference - Hardcover

Balena, Francesco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0735613753 ISBN 13: 9780735613751

Publisher: Microsoft Press US, 2002

Synopsis

Accelerate your productivity with Visual Basic® .NET—and quickly create powerful Win32® applications and high-performance, scalable applications for the Web—with this indispensable tutorial and reference. Building on the success of the author’s popular programming book for Visual Basic 6.0, this new book teaches you the best practices for porting and reusing existing Visual Basic code in the .NET Framework as well as for exploiting the language’s advanced new object-oriented capabilities. It covers the common language runtime (CLR), multithreaded programs, Windows® Forms applications, GDI+ graphic programming, Windows services, ADO.NET classes for database programs, ASP.NET Web Forms, and Web Services. It includes advanced optimization techniques and tips for leveraging the power of the Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET environment.

Topics covered include:

• Getting started with Visual Basic .NET
• Modules, variables, and error handling
• Object-oriented features, including inheritance
• Delegates and attributes
• Arrays, lists, and collections
• Files, directories, and streams
• Object serialization
• Regular expressions
• Threading
• Assemblies and AppDomains
• Reflection
• Windows Forms applications and GDI+
• Windows Forms custom control creation
• Windows services
• ADO.NET
• XML
• ASP.NET Web Forms applications
• User controls and custom controls
• XML Web services

CD+DVD INSIDE!

CD-ROM features:

• A fully searchable electronic copy of PROGRAMMING MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6.0
• Sample applications written in Visual Basic .NET

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About this title

From the Publisher:

Use Visual Basic. NET—and existing Visual Basic code—to quickly build powerful, object-oriented applications for the Web

From the Author:

Delivers the instruction, code, and scenario-based solutions that help developers create robust, reusable, XML-enabled code with Visual Basic .NET faster

About this edition

• Publisher: Microsoft Press US
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0735613753
• ISBN 13: 9780735613751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1616