4.5. Summary

In this chapter, you have seen how easily Visual Studio 2005 and the VB 2005 language can be used to create professional applications. In particular, you have seen how to create a database and bind its records to a data access form; how web services can be consumed in a Visual Studio 2005 project; and how data can be persisted in a SQL database for offline perusal. You have also learned how ClickOnce makes deployment and updating of smart clients easy and effortless and how you can painlessly add asynchronous calls to an application.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to use VB 2005 to develop web applications.