VB.Net Kick Start (with source code)

Visual Basic .NET Kick Start is a rapid-progression tutorial that presents Visual Basic .NET to working programmers already familiar with another programming language or tool. This book speeds through basic concepts and focuses on practical examples showing the advantages of Visual Basic .NET in ASP programming, application design and creation, and .NET Web Services development. Because previous versions of Visual Basic are so prevalent, this book pays special attention to issues developers face when moving from VB to VB.NET. Although Visual Basic .NET Kick Start assumes no knowledge of the .NET Framework, it skips the handholding and basic programming instruction associated with entry-level tutorials. Full of code examples, tips, and professional insights, this book is about maximum payoff with minimum effort for the working programming who wants to use Visual Basic .NET now.

Visual Basic has slowly evolved over the years, incorporating a variety of features and moving itself into the world of "enterprise" development, but everything was being built on top of an already existing foundation. This is not unusual; most development tools progress in this way, but it has the unfortunate side effect of garbage accumulation. New versions of the tool try to stay compatible with, and therefore have to keep all the less-than-perfect aspects of, the previous versions. To rewrite the language from scratch is almost unthinkable. The work required would be enormous and breaking compatibility with the user's existing code is bound to make you unpopular. The benefit of such a move would be a completely clean and new implementation that can keep the good and throw away the bad parts of the existing language.

That is exactly what Micro$oft has done in the move from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET. They have rewritten the language to create a clean version that does away with the garbage built up over a decade of successive language improvements. That means a hard learning curve for people who were experienced in the previous version of the language, but the end result is worth the effort. This radical shift makes this a great time to get up to speed on Visual Basic .NET, as the concepts taught in this book will have a much longer lifespan than material covering the previous version.

There are many benefits to this change, all of which were motivators for this decision, but the most significant motivation was the need to conform to the new .NET environment. As a necessary bit of background before you can jump into the specific changes that occurred between Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET, you'll learn more about .NET, including what it is and how Visual Basic fits into it.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Introducing VB .NET 2003
Chapter 02 - VB .NET Language Changes
Chapter 03 - Building Windows Applications
Chapter 04 - Working with Files
Chapter 05 - Data Binding
Chapter 06 - Data Without the Binding
Chapter 07 - Object-Oriented Programming in VB .NET
Chapter 08 - Building Custom Controls
Chapter 09 - Integrating with COM
Chapter 10 - Advanced Topics

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