Visual Basic .NET Unleashed

Book's Description:

• Author: Paul Kimmel
• Paperback: 784 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (January 17, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067232234X
• ISBN-13: 978-0672322341
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.8 inches

Topics covered:
In-depth introduction to the Visual Studio .NET IDE (including common project tasks, configuration options, debugging, and built-in views), VB6 versus VB .NET language tutorial (including new .NET data types, variables, arrays, collections, and exception handling); extending VS .NET with macros (including Add-ins and Wizards), procedures and parameters, recursion, structures, enumerated types, reflection APIs, object-oriented design tutorial, (classes, access specifiers, properties, methods, nested classes), events in VB .NET: delegates and event handlers, inheritance and polymorphism (including interfaces), shared members, attributes (plus custom attributes); VB .NET console applications (debugging and running applications), multithreaded applications (lightweight and heavyweight threading), introduction to Windows Forms, GDI+ graphics (including basic shapes, curves and Bezier splines and images), tutorial for Web services (UDDI, DISCO, building and debugging Web services); basic Web programming with ASP.NET and ADO.NET, writing to the event log, list of changes between VB6 and VB .NET, refactoring VB code, and advice for effective object-oriented programming.

Amazon's book review:
Visual Basic.NET Unleashed by computer expert Paul Kimmel is a complete, "user friendly", very highly recommended instructional and reference book on the fundamentals of programming with a fully object-oriented language filled with new idioms and capabilities. In addition to the fundamentals, Visual Basic.NET Unleashed covers: free threading and multithreading; inheritance; virtual methods and shared methods; structured exception handling; event handling; encapsulation at the namespace level; Web Services; and NET Framework compatibility. User Level: Beginning-Intermediate, 850 pages.

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