Visual Basic.NET and the.NET Platform

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET provides the productivity features developers need to rapidly create enterprise-critical Web applications. In "Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform", Andrew Troelsen shows experienced developers how to use VB .NET for developing virtually every possible kind of .NET application. From Windows-based to Web-based applications, and from ADO .NET to XML Web services, it's all here. There are detailed discussions of every aspect of .NET development and many useful examples with no toy code (TM). Troelsen starts with a brief philosopohy of the VB .NET language, and then quickly moves to key technical and architectural issues for .NET developers. Not only is there extensive coverage of the .NET Framework, but Troelsen also describes the new object-oriented features of VB .NET, including inheritance and interface-based programming techniques. Readers also learn how to use VB .NET for object serialization, how to access data with ADO .NET, how to build (and interact with) .NET Web services, and how to access legacy COM applications. Written in the same five-star style as his previous two books, "Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL 3.0" and "C# and the .N ET Platform", this is the comprehensive book on using VB .NET to build .NET applications that developers have been waiting for!