Chapter 2. The .NET Framework: General Concepts

This chapter provides a high-level overview of the most important .NET Framework concepts. There are many concepts that are new and different from Visual Basic's pre-.NET days, but some of them are quite technical or esoteric and are beyond the scope of this book. The discussion here is limited to those essential features that you must know to program effectively using .NET. For a more thorough coverage of .NET concepts, see Thuan Thai and Hoang Q. Lam's book, .NET Framework Essentials (O'Reilly).