April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
19h 51m
English
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How This Book Is Structured
VB.NET Language in a Nutshell is divided into three parts. The first part of the book, The Basics, is an introduction to the main features and concepts of Visual Basic programming. Given the newness of VB.NET, even seasoned VB professionals should find items of interest here. If you’re new to VB, this part of the book is essential reading. It’s divided into the following chapters:
- Chapter 1
In this chapter, you’ll see how Visual Basic has evolved into the VB.NET language of today and get some sense of how and why VB.NET is different from previous versions of Visual Basic.
- Chapter 2
This chapters discusses the entry points that allows the .NET runtime to execute your code and shows how to structure the code in a Visual Basic program.
- Chapter 3
This chapter looks at the standard Visual Basic data types and how you use them. Behind the scenes, Visual Basic takes advantage of the .NET Framework’s common type system, so the chapter also examines the .NET data types and the way in which VB wraps these data types.
- Chapter 4
With the release of its .NET version, Visual Basic finally becomes a fully object-oriented programming language. This chapter discusses the basic concepts of object-orientated programming and shows how you implement VB’s object-oriented features in your programming.
- Chapter 5
This chapter surveys some of the new features of the .NET Framework that most impact the VB developer. These include namespaces, the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ...
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