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• Insights for students with experience in Visual Basic 6 and previous versions—Carefully designed to help students with prior Visual Basic experience.

  • Enables students with prior Visual Basic experience to become effective with Visual Basic.NET more rapidly.

• Coverage of key .NET classes—Introduces .NET classes that simplify access to .NET's key features, including classes for collections, files, and threads.

  • Gives students who are experienced with VB exceptionally rapid access to sophisticated .NET functionality.

• Object-oriented VB.NET programming design, in detail—Explains how to design effective object-oriented Visual Basic.NET programs for distributed environments.

  • Helps students gain the full power of VB.NET — and maximize reuse and efficiency — whether or not they have previously used true object-oriented languages.

• Detailed Windows Forms coverage—Demonstrates how to use Windows Forms to build robust, next-generation Windows user interfaces.

  • Gives students the skills they need to build Windows applications with exceptional power and usability.

• Detailed coverage of database access—Introduces practical techniques for integrating databases using Microsoft's advanced ADO.NET technology.

  • Helps students master database integration techniques that are central to virtually all contemporary application and Web service development.

• Case study shared across all books in the series—This and all other books in the Integrated .NET Series from Object Innovations and Prentice Hall PTR share appropriate facets of a detailed case study covering the entire development process.

  • Lets students more effectively leverage what they've learned as they move from one .NET book and skillset to the next. Because the case study covers the entire development lifecycle, students will understand the challenges that can arise at all stages of .NET development.

Preface.


Acknowledgment.


About This Series.

I. INTRODUCTION TO .NET AND VB.NET.

II. VB.NET AS A VISUAL BASIC LANGUAGE.

III. OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING IN VB.NET.

IV. WINDOWS PROGRAMMING IN VB.NET.

V. VB.NET AND THE .NET FRAMEWORK.

Visual BASIC - Intermediate / Advanced Programming  [PTG: PRENTICE HALL PROFESSIONAL]   (Computer Science)

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DANA L. WYATT, Ph. D. formed EMCA Consulting in 1993 to provide advanced object-oriented training, mentoring, and consulting services. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and taught computer science for 13 years at Texas A&M, TCU, and the University of North Texas, receiving a NASA-ASEE fellowship for research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

ROBERT J. OBERG is founder and President of Object Innovations, a leading developer of integrated courseware on fundamental software including Microsoft .NET, COM+, and Java. His books include Understanding and Programming COM+, Introduction to C# Using .NET and Application Development Using C# and .NET (Prentice Hall PTR). He is editor of The Integrated .NET Series. Oberg holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Master VB.NET step-by-step, through practical examples and a case study.

Using real-world examples and a detailed case study, this book helps you master VB.NET from the ground up—or rapidly migrate to VB.NET from earlier versions of Visual Basic. Dana L. Wyatt and Robert Oberg present a thorough introduction to VB.NET the language, the .NET Framework, and Visual Studio.NET. They examine VB.NET's basic coding constructs, thoroughly explore object-oriented design with VB.NET, and offer systematic guidance for building next-generation Windows applications with Windows Forms. Coverage includes:

• Classes, inheritance, and other elements of VB.NET object-oriented programming
• Windows Forms: form design, controls, events, menus, toolbars, and dialogs
• Visual Basic.NET's key interactions with the .NET Framework
• Major .NET classes: collections, files, ADO.NET database access, and multithreading
• Core VB.NET language features: data types, operators, control structures, and more
• Attributes, custom attributes, metadata, and reflection
• Techniques for building reusable .NET components

This title is a member of the The Integrated .NET Series from Object Innovations Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the Integrated .NET Series from Object Innovations Series page.

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  .NET Security and Cryptography
  Thorsteinson & Ganesh
  ©2004 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 496 pp | Instock
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  Application Development Using C# and .NET
  Stiefel & Oberg
  ©2002 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 656 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013093383X | ISBN-13: 9780130933836
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  For all experienced programming students who want to achieve true mastery of Microsoft's C# language for advanced .NET application, Web, and Web Services development.

  This book gives experienced developers practical insight for building sophisticated .NET applications using Microsoft's advanced C# language. Using a running case study and extensive code examples, the authors illuminate essential .NET concepts such as interfaces, attributes, collections, threading, remoting, security, and versioning, and introduce powerful new .NET technologies, including ADO.NET and ASP.NET. This is the latest book in the Integrated .NET Series from Object Innovations and Prentice Hall PTR, focused guides to .NET written by expert practitioners and instructors. All books in this series teach in a systematic, step-by-step manner, using rich examples and a running case study that shows how to build a complete system. The books integrate perfectly: developers who want an even stronger understanding of the basics of C# can refer to the companion introductory title, Introduction to C# Using .NET.

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  Application Development Using Visual Basic and .NET
  Oberg, Thorsteinson & Wyatt
  ©2002 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 864 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130933821 | ISBN-13: 9780130933829
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  This book gives students who are experienced programmers the practical insight they need to build enterprise applications for Microsoft's .NET platform using Visual Basic. Using a running case study and extensive code examples, the authors illuminate essential .NET concepts, and introduce powerful new .NET technologies such as ADO.NET and ASP.NET. Students without Visual Basic experience will appreciate the book's self-contained Visual Basic.NET overview; those familiar with Visual Basic can proceed directly to the book's in-depth .NET Framework coverage. ork coverage.

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  Introduction to C# Using .NET
  Oberg
  ©2002 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 480 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130418013 | ISBN-13: 9780130418012
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  For C# Programming courses.

  A practical introduction to C#, this comprehensive, hands-on presentation teaches programming from an object-oriented perspective. The text explores several important interactions between C# and the .NET Framework and includes an introduction to major classes for user interface, database, Web programming and XML.

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  Introduction to Visual Basic Using .NET
  Wyatt & Oberg
  ©2002 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 704 pp | Instock
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  Appropriate for students with prior programming experience—including students learning VB.NET as their first language.

  Using real-world examples, this book helps students master VB.NET from the ground up — or rapidly migrate to VB.NET from whatever version of Visual Basic they have used before. Dana Wyatt and Robert Oberg present a thorough introduction to the .NET Framework, Visual Studio.NET, VB.NET's basic coding constructs, VB.NET object-oriented design, and next-generation Windows application development. This book is in the Integrated.NET Series from Object Innovations and Prentice Hall PTR. These are focused guides to .NET written by expert practitioners and instructors. All books in this series teach in a systematic, step-by-step manner, using rich examples and an extensive case study that develop a complete .NET system. The books integrate perfectly: Visual Basic.NET students who want an even stronger understanding of the .NET platform can refer to the companion intermediate-to-advanced-level title, Application Development Using Visual Basic .NET.

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