Short description
This unparalleled author team brings years of expert-level experience in VB programming and offers readers intense coverage of the drastic changes to VB 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Framework Reviews topics such as Common Language Runtime, the latest Visual Studio .NET IDE, ASP.NET advanced features, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, and Windows Workflow Foundation Details subjects such as applying objects and components, error handling and debugging, deploying applications, and more
Long description
This book that is different than other VB books because it explains intermediate to advanced topics in an easily understood and concise model. The comprehensive coverage provides detailed information on how to use VB in the ever-expanding .NET world using not only explanations of the topics, but demonstrations of code. It effectively shows developers how to get tasks accomplished. This book is written to show the reader what they need to know to take their abilities to new levels. This book shows developers exactly how to build everything from traditional console applications, ASP.NET applications, and XML Web Services. Along with these various applications, this book will deal with the issues of security, data access (ADO.NET), and the latest Visual Studio .NET IDE, as well as introduce developers to everything they need to know to fully understand the new .NET 3.5 Framework. Topics Covered include: Visual Studio Orcas Web services and .NET remoting Deploying applications Windows Workflow Foundation Windows Presentation Foundation Windows Communication Foundation. .NET 3.5 Framework Common Language Runtime Applying Objects and Components Namespaces Error Handling and Debugging XML with VB.NET ASP.NET Advanced Features and much more