Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell, Third Edition

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Preface

This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition

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Appendix B, Namespace Hierarchy

A hierarchical listing of the .NET namespaces from System on down, plus the

hierarchy of the Visual Basic My Namespace feature.

Appendix C, Constants and Enumerations

A list of VB intrinsic constants, as well as VB enumerations and their

members.

Appendix D, What’s New and Different in Visual Basic .NET 2002

A discussion of language changes from VB 6 to Visual Basic .NET 2002.

Appendix E, What’s New and Different in Visual Basic .NET 2003

A discussion of language changes introduced with Visual Basic .NET 2003

and the .NET Framework, Version 1.1.

Appendix F, What’s New and Different in Visual Basic 2005

A discussion of language changes introduced with Visual Basic 2005 and the

.NET Framework, Version 2.0.

Appendix G, VB 6 Language Elements No Longer Supported

A list of the language elements that have dropped out of the Visual Basic

language as a result of its transition to the .NET Framework.

Appendix H, The Visual Basic Command-Line Compiler

Visual Basic includes a command-line compiler—you can actually use

Notepad as your primary “development environment” for Visual Basic and

use the compiler to compile your code. This appendix documents the opera-

tion of the Visual Basic command-line compiler and its options.

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