By harnessing the power of Visual Basic 2005, you can create innovative solutions for a host of programming challenges. These include dynamic applications for use over the Internet as well as mobile applications for Pocket PCs and SmartPhones. Filled with code examples and thorough explanations, this book will help you quickly get up to speed with the language so you can begin writing your own customized programs.

Chapter 1 Welcome to Visual Basic 2005 1
Chapter 2 The Microsoft .NET framework 25
Chapter 3 Writing software 37
Chapter 4 Controlling the flow 83
Chapter 5 Working with data structures 125
Chapter 6 Building Windows applications 173
Chapter 7 Displaying dialog boxes 205
Chapter 8 Creating menus 247
Chapter 9 Debugging and error handling 271
Chapter 10 Building objects
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