Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

Foreword by Ted Pattison

I have been programming in VB for more than a decade. I started long ago in the days of Visual Basic 1.0. Way back then, most folks didn't know what to think of a VB guy. End users thought we were programmers. C programmers thought we were end users. We have always been hard to categorize because we are the world's first type of mammal that has the characteristics of being both a programmer and a human at the same time. As luck would have it, this particular combination of skill sets was just the ticket for rapidly creating business applications that were actually useful.

If you're a VB guy, the .NET Framework is probably the biggest opportunity you've ever had. The days of those arrogant C++ programmers with their semicolons, ...