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Application Development Using Visual Basic and .NET
By Robert J. Oberg, Peter Thorsteinson, Dana L. Wyatt
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The book is organized into six major parts and is structured to make it easy for you to navigate to what you need to learn. Part 1, consisting of the first two chapters, provides an overview that should be read by everyone. It answers the big question, What is Microsoft .NET? and outlines the programming model of the .NET Framework.

Part 2, consisting of Chapters 3 to 6, covers the VB.NET programming language. Even if you know classic Visual Basic, you should read this part, paying attention to the changes in data types (Chapter 3) and the new object-oriented features (Chapters 5). Chapter 6 covers important interactions between VB.NET and the .NET Framework. The Acme Travel Agency case study, which is elaborated throughout the entire book, is introduced in Chapter 5.

Part 3, consisting of Chapters 7 and 8, covers the fundamentals of Windows Forms. Windows Forms is a set of classes in the .NET Framework for writing graphical user interfaces. Programmers familiar with previous versions of Visual Basic will notice that this significantly changes the programming model, yet also introduces flexibility not previously available.

Part 4, consisting of Chapters 9 and 10, introduces important fundamental topics in the .NET Framework. Chapter 9 discusses assemblies and deployment, which constitute a major advance in the simplicity and robustness of deploying Windows applications, ending the notorious situation known as "DLL hell." Chapter 10 introduces important .NET Framework classes and covers the topics of metadata, serialization, threading, attributes, asynchronous programming, remoting, and memory management.

Part 5, consisting of Chapters 11 and 12, covers additional advanced topics in UI programming with VB.NET. Chapter 11 introduces GDI+, which provides a graphics programming model that is both more powerful and easier to use than the classic GDI model of traditional Windows. GDI+ is also completely accessible through Visual Basic. Chapter 12 introduces some important additional advanced topics, such as visual inheritance, MDI, and the use of ActiveX controls in .NET applications.

Part 6, consisting of Chapters 13 to 17, covers important parts of the .NET Framework that are useful in creating a variety of different applications. Chapter 13 covers ADO.NET, which provides a consistent set of classes for accessing both relational and XML data. Chapter 14 introduces the fundamentals of ASP.NET, including the use of Web Forms, for the development of Web sites. Chapter 15 covers SOAP and Web services, which provide an easy-to-use and robust mechanism for heterogeneous systems to interoperate . Chapter 16 covers the topic of security in detail, including code access security and declarative security. Chapter 17 covers interoperability of .NET with legacy COM and Win32 applications.

Appendices introduce Visual Studio .NET and the debug and trace classes provided by .NET.


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Application Development Using Visual BasicR and .NET
Application Development Using Visual BasicR and .NET
ISBN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 2002
Pages: 190

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