Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET

Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library covers how to delineate and define the pieces of .NET; how and why .NET was conceived and what this means to VB6/Windows DNA developers; how to execute Windows programming using the .NET namespaces; instructs how to make architecture decisions when using .NET namespaces; provides details about the construction of Web Services and how they communicate with each other; call-outs and highlighted sections illustrate concepts by relating previous VB6/Windows DNA best practices with the new .NET approach.

Foreword

xx

Preface

xxiii

Introduction

1

(4)

Part I An Introduction to .NET

5

(76)

Evolution of .NET

7

(22)

Evolution of VB .NET

29

(20)

Object-Oriented Concepts in .NET

49

(14)

Introduction to the .NET Framework Class Library

63

(18)

Part II Working with the .NET Namespaces

81

(722)

Forms, Menus, and Controls

83

(70)

Font, Text, and Printing Operations

153

(60)

Stream and File Operations

213

(60)

Networking Functions

273

(70)

Drawing Functions

343

(68)

Reading and Writing XML

411

(78)

XSLT and XPath

489

(50)

Working with Threads

539

(58)

Messaging

597

(94)

Browser/Server Communications

691

(30)

Data Storage and Access

721

(54)

Directory Services

775

(28)

Part III Real-World .NET Programming

803

(292)

Accessing COM+ Services

805

(44)

.NET Interop with COM Applications

849

(20)

Managing Collections of Objects

869

(26)

Profiling, Debugging, and Exception Handling

895

(30)

Globalization and Localization Techniques

925

(24)

Deploying, Configuring, and Licensing .NET Components

949

(146)

Calling the Win32 API from Managed Code

977

(12)

Win32 API-to-Namspace Cross-Reference

989

(90)

.NET Security Models

1079

(12)

.NET Framework Base Data Types

1091

(4)

Index

1095

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Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library

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