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Application Development Using Visual Basic® and .NET
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Application Development Using Visual Basic® and .NET

by Robert J. Oberg, Peter Thorsteinson, Dana L. Wyatt
June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
18h 35m
English
Pearson

Overview

Build industrial-strength .NET applications with Visual Basic.

  • Experienced programmers: Quickly come up to speed on the new, powerful Visual Basic .NET

  • Practical, hands-on coverage of the .NET Framework, CLR, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Web services, security, interoperability, and more

  • Running case study: see how concepts work together when you build .NET applications

This book gives experienced developers the practical insight they need to build enterprise applications using Visual Basic .NET. Using extensive code examples and a running case study, the authors illuminate the .NET concepts and technologies that offer developers the greatest power and value. They cover the entire process of constructing a .NET application: developing a simple .NET console application; adding a Windows Forms interface; isolating functionality within components; providing database access via ADO.NET; securing your code; and using ASP.NET to create Web applications and services.

  • .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime fundamentals for experienced programmers

  • Key .NET features: interfaces, attributes, collections, I/O, threading, remoting, and more

  • In-depth coverage of ADO.NET, ASP.NET Web Forms, and Web services

  • Advanced user interface programming with Windows Forms and GDI+

  • Assemblies, component deployment, and versioning

  • Ensuring interoperability with diverse and legacy systems

  • Includes a self-contained Visual Basic .NET overview for those new to the language

Part of The Integrated .NET Series from Object Innovations and Prentice Hall PTR.

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