Professional Visual Basic 2005

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.

Table of contents :
Introduction
· What Is Microsoft .NET?
· Introducing Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005
· Variables and Type
· Object Syntax Introduction.
· Inheritance and Interfaces
· The Common Language Runtime
· Applying Objects and Components
· Generics
· Namespaces
· Exception Handling and Debugging
· Data Access with ADO.NET 2.0
· Using XML in Visual Basic 2005
· Security in the .NET Framework 2.0
· Windows Forms
· Windows Forms Advanced Features
· Building Web Applications
· ASP.NET 2.0 Advanced Features
· Assemblies
· Deployment
· Working with Classic COM and Interfaces
· Enterprise Services
· Threading
· XML Web Services
· Remoting
· Windows Services
· Network Programming
· Visual Basic and the Internet
Appendix A: The Visual Basic Compiler.
Appendix B: Visual Basic Resources.
Index

Market Description :
This book is aimed primarily at experienced Visual Basic developers who need to make the transition to VB 20005 and the .NET Framework. This book will also help developers with the latest version of the IDE, Visual Studio 2005.


About Author :
Bill Evjen is one of the most active proponents of the .NET technologies and community-based learning initiatives for .NET. He is the president of the St. Louis .NET User Group (www.stlnet.org) as well as the founder and president of the International .NET Association (www.ineta.org) which represents more than 175,000 members worldwide. In addition to working in the .NET world, Bill is a Technical Director serving in the office of the Chief Scientist for the international news and financial services company Reuters.

Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, one of the nations premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners dedicated to solving today’s most challenging business problems using 100% Microsoft tools and technology.
Billy Hollis is a frequent speaker at conferences and is MSDN Regional Director of Developer Relations in Nashville, TN for Microsoft.

Bill Sheldon is currently employed as a Principal Engineer with InterKnowlogy. Bill designs software solutions and develops enterprise infrastructure components.

Rama Ramachandran is VP of Technology with Imperium, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner for E-Commerce. Rama is a MCSD and designs and develops web applications.

Tim McCarthy is a Principal Engineer at InterKnowlogy, where he architects and builds highly scalable n-tier web applications utilizing the latest Microsoft technologies.