About This Book


This book is divided into six chapters. Each chapter tackles a particular category of enhancements in the VB 2005 language and the .NET 2.0 Framework:


Chapter 1, Visual Studio

Visual Studio sports a host of embellishments, including enhanced IntelliSense and a new code snippets feature that puts useful examples at your fingertips. But the star of the show is undoubtedly the return of the long-missed edit-and-continue debugging engine.


Chapter 2, The Visual Basic Language

The VB 2005 language has some new keywords, some of which duplicate features found in C# (e.g., operator overloading), and others that leverage completely new .NET Framework features (e.g., generics). Learn about them all in this chapter.


Chapter 3, Windows Applications

The Windows Forms toolkit hasn't changed much, but a handful of entirely new controls provide modern menus and toolbars, masked text editing, web page display, and, finally, a decent data grid.


Chapter 4, Web Applications

ASP.NET boasts the most improvements of any part of the .NET Framework. In this chapter, you'll get an overview of many new features, including codeless data-binding, site navigation, and new solutions for personalization, all of which aim to dramatically reduce the amount of code you need to write.


Chapter 5, Files, Databases, and XML

In this chapter, you'll see what's new when dealing with data. This includes streamlined file access classes, a few new ADO.NET frills, and a better way to work with XML.


Chapter 6, .NET 2.0 Platform Services

The last chapter wraps up with a slew of miscellaneous topics that demonstrate new .NET Framework features. These features include support for FTP, access to the Windows user security system, and a new way to deploy applications with the ClickOnce technology.



Visual Basic 2005(c) A Developer's Notebook
Visual Basic 2005: A Developers Notebook
ISBN: 0596007264
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 123

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