This book is written to show the reader what they need to know to take their abilities to new levels. Visual Basic 2005 has changed dramatically from its predecessor, and the reader will find everything here that they need to make the transition to the newest version of the world's most popular programming language.

    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 2005 IDE, as well as introduce developers to everything they need to know to fully understand the .NET Framework.

Chapter 1 What is Microsoft.NET?
Chapter 2 Introducing Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005
Chapter 3 Variables and type
Chapter 4 Object syntax introduction
Chapter 5 Inheritance and interfaces
Chapter 6 The common language runtime
Chapter 7 Applying objects and components
Chapter 8 Generics
Chapter 9 Namespaces
Chapter 10 Exception handling and debugging

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