Visual Basic.NET How to Program, Second Edition


This exciting new Second Edition of the Deitels' best-selling Visual Basic textbook carefully explains how to use Visual Basic .NET?a premier language in Microsoft's new .NET initiative?as a general-purpose programming language and how to program multi-tier, client/server, database-intensive, Internet- and Web-based .NET applications.
Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally-recognized corporate-training and content-creation organization specializing in Visual Basic? .NET, C#, Visual C++? .NET, Java?, C++, C, XML?, Python, Perl; Internet, Web, wireless, e-business and object technologies. The Deitels are the authors of several worldwide #1 programming-language textbooks, including Java How to Program, 4/e, C++ How to Program, 3/e and Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, 2/e.
In Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e, the Deitels and their colleague, Tem. R. Nieto, discuss topics you need to build complete .NET, Web-based applications, including:
.NET Introduction/IDE/Debugger
Control Structures/Procedures/Arrays
Classes/Data Abstraction/Strings
OOP/Inheritance/Polymorphism
Methods/Properties/Events/Delegates
Data Structures/Collections/Unicode?
Database/ADO.NET/SQL
Assemblies/Modules/Exceptions
GUI/Forms/Controls/Visual Inheritance
Web Services/ASP.NET/Web Forms
XML/XSLT?/DOM?/DTD/Schema
VoiceXML?/Regular Expressions
Files/Streams/Multimedia/Graphics/GDI+
Multithreading/Client-Server/Networking
Session Tracking/Cookies/Accessibility
HTML 4/XHTML?/COM Integration
Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e includes extensive pedagogic features:
Hundreds of LIVE-CODE? programs with screen captures that show exact outputs
Extensive World Wide Web and Internet resources to encourage further research
Hundreds of tips, recommended practices and cautions?all marked with icons