Visual Basic .NET Bible is a 100% Comprehensive guide to the newest, and much-changed version of Visual Basic. Expert authors Bill Evjen and Jason Beres guide readers through the Visual Basic .NET language and tools and enable them to create next-generation applications for the Microsoft .NET Platform.

Both beginning and practiced programmers will benefit from expert coverage of topics that include:
· The new Visual Basic .NET IDE
· Working with controls, toolboxes and menus
· Understanding variables, loops and other Visual Basic .NET syntax
· Object Oriented Programming
· Working with XML
· Accessing databases
· Interacting with COM+ Services
· Building Web Services
· And more...

About the Author

Bill Evjen has been programming in Web development since 1996. Though raised in Seattle, Bill is presently an Internet Applications developer in St. Louis, Missouri. His abilities in Microsoft-centric Web technologies have led him to develop a number of large Internet-based applications for Fortune 500 companies and others. Bill's love of the new .NET platform led him to be the Founder and President of the St. Louis .NET User Group (http://www.stlnet.org/), and has helped in bringing prominent .NET speakers to the Midwest. Bill graduated from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington with a Russian Linguistics degree, and when he isn't tinkering on the computer, he enjoys spending his free time in his summer place in Toivakka, Finland. You can reach Bill at evjen@yahoo.com. Jason Beres has been a software developer for 10 years. He is currently a consultant in south Florida and works exclusively with Microsoft technologies. Jason holds the MCT, MCSD, and MCDBA certifications from Microsoft. When he is not teaching, consulting, or writing, he is formatting his hard drive and installing the latest beta products from Microsoft and keeping up with the latest episodes of Star Trek.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments PART I: Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction to .NET Chapter 2: VB6 and VB .NET Differences PART II: The VB .NET Programming Language Chapter 3: Object-Oriented Programming and VB .NET Chapter 4: Hello World Chapter 5: Data Types, Variables, and Operators Chapter 6: Arrays Chapter 7: Conditional Logic Chapter 8: Procedures Chapter 9: Dialog Boxes Chapter 10: File IO and System Objects Chapter 11: Dictionary Object Chapter 12: Error Handling Chapter 13: Namespaces Chapter 14: Classes and Objects Chapter 15: Multithreading Chapter 16: COM Interop and MSMQ PART III: Visual Studio .NET: The IDE for VB .NET Chapter 17: Visual Basic .NET IDE Chapter 18: Compiling and Debugging Chapter 19: Customizing Chapter 20: Source Control PART IV: Data Access Chapter 21: Introduction to Data Access in .NET Chapter 22: ADO.NET Chapter 23: Data Access in Visual Studio .NET Chapter 24: Introduction to XML in .NET PART V: Windows Forms Chapter 25: Introduction to System, Windows, Forms Chapter 26: Controls Chapter 27: Specific Controls Chapter 28: Visual: Inheritance Chapter 29: Irregular Forms Chapter 30: Other Namespaces and Objects in the Catalog PART VI: VB .NET and the Web Chapter 31: Introduction to Web Development Chapter 32: Introduction to ASP.NET Chapter 33: Page Framework Chapter 34: HTML Server Controls Chapter 35: Web Controls Chapter 36: Validation Controls Chapter 37: User Controls Chapter 38: Events Chapter 39: Cascading Style Sheets Chapter 40: State Management Chapter 41: ASP.NET Applications Chapter 42: Tracing Chapter 43: Security PART VII: Web Services Chapter 44: Introduction to Web Services Chapter 45: Web Services Infrastructure Chapter 46: SOAP Chapter 47: Building a Web Service Chapter 48: Deploying and Publishing Web Services Chapter 49: Finding Web Services Chapter 50: Consuming Web Services Appendix A: Globalization Appendix B: VB6 Upgrade Wizard Index