Microsoft Visual Basic .NET provides the productivity features developers need to rapidly create enterprise-critical Web applications. In "Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform", Andrew Troelsen shows experienced developers how to use VB .NET for developing virtually every possible kind of .NET application. From Windows-based to Web-based applications, and from ADO .NET to XML Web services, it's all here. There are detailed discussions of every aspect of .NET development and many useful examples with no toy code (TM). Troelsen starts with a brief philosopohy of the VB .NET language, and then quickly moves to key technical and architectural issues for .NET developers. Not only is there extensive coverage of the .NET Framework, but Troelsen also describes the new object-oriented features of VB .NET, including inheritance and interface-based programming techniques. Readers also learn how to use VB .NET for object serialization, how to access data with ADO .NET, how to build (and interact with) .NET Web services, and how to access legacy COM applications. Written in the same five-star style as his previous two books, "Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL 3.0" and "C# and the .N ET Platform", this is the comprehensive book on using VB .NET to build .NET applications that developers have been waiting for!
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Aimed at the more experienced programmer tackling the new VB.NET for the first time, Andrew Troelsen's Visual Basic.NET and the .NET Platform provides a quick-moving and intelligently rendered tour of .NET with plenty of in-depth material on classes and object-oriented design.
The notable feature of this book is that is a direct "translation" of the author's C# book, C# and the.NET Platform using the same chapters and many of examples ported from C# to VB.NET. Readers can thus rest assured that this is tried-and-true material.
The author pitches the presentation at a fairly expert level with plenty of coverage of object-oriented design, as well as a pretty thorough language tutorial. (The fact that it's possible to show VB.NET using the same features as C# shows the languages are now equals on .NET.) Troelson's tour delivers good insight into the.NET Framework itself with coverage of topics like Intermediate Language (IL), the Common Language Runtime (CLR), as well as deploying .NET components in assemblies. The book shows the "three pillars" of object-oriented programming--encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism--which are amply illustrated with code excerpts using objects for shapes, employee and other simple classes. This book is also good at demonstrating how to get older COM and COM+ code to interoperate with new .NET components.
Later chapters turn toward building user interfaces, whether through traditional clients using Windows Forms (and graphics programming), but also a solid introduction to ASP.NET and Web Forms, for building Web-based, thin clients. Final sections look at Web services, which are just as easy to create in VB.NET as with any other supported .NET language.
While this book assumes some programming knowledge on the part of the reader, it covers all the bases needed to use the new VB.NET and the .NET Framework effectively. It's a worthy choice for getting onboard with .NET and will be appreciated by any new VB.NET developer, as well as C# and VB 6 developers making the transition to Microsoft's latest version. --Richard Dragan
Andrew Troelsen is a partner, trainer, and consultant at Intertech Inc., and is a leading authority on both .NET and COM. His book Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform won the prestigious 2003 Referenceware Excellence Award and is in its third edition. Also of note are his earlier five-star treatment of traditional COM in the bestselling Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL mirrored in his book, COM and .NET Interoperability, and his top-notch investigation of VB .NET in Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide. Troelsen has a degree in mathematical linguistics and South Asian studies from the University of Minnesota, and is a frequent speaker at numerous .NET-related conferences. He currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Amanda, and spends his free time investigating .NET and waiting for the Wild to win the Stanley Cup. You can check out his blog at AndrewTroelsen.blogspot.com.
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