Chapter 24. The 10,000-Foot View

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What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

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Understanding the .NET Framework

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Understanding the common language runtime

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How Visual Basic 2008 uses the Microsoft intermediate language

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Using Visual Studio .NET namespaces

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Understanding the common type system

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Understanding garbage collection

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You know a lot about Visual Basic 2008 now. You can create projects, you can use forms and controls to build an interface, and you know how to add menus and toolbars to a form. You’ve also learned how to create modules and procedures and how to write code to make things ...

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