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Oliver,  Robert,  1976 ”
       Designing  Enterprise  Applications  with  Microsoft  Visual  Basic  .NET  /  Robert  Ian  Oliver.
             p.    cm.
       ISBN  0-7356-1721-X
       Includes  index.
           1.    Microsoft  Visual  Basic    2.  Basic  (Computer  program  language)    3.    Microsoft
.NET  Framework  I.  Title

       QA76.73.B3  O45        2002
       005.2'768--dc21                                                                                                                  2002027879

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