Accelerate your productivity with Visual Basic� .NET—and quickly create powerful Win32� applications and high-performance, scalable applications for the Web—with this indispensable tutorial and reference. Building on the success of the author’s popular programming book for Visual Basic 6.0, this new book teaches you the best practices for porting and reusing existing Visual Basic code in the .NET Framework as well as for exploiting the language’s advanced new object-oriented capabilities. It covers the common language runtime (CLR), multithreaded programs, Windows� Forms applications, GDI+ graphic programming, Windows services, ADO.NET classes for database programs, ASP.NET Web Forms, and Web Services. It includes advanced optimization techniques and tips for leveraging the power of the Microsoft� Visual Studio� .NET environment.

Topics covered include:

Getting started with Visual Basic .NET
Modules, variables, and error handling
Object-oriented features, including inheritance
Delegates and attributes
Arrays, lists, and collections
Files, directories, and streams
Object serialization
Regular expressions
Threading
Assemblies and AppDomains
Reflection
Windows Forms applications and GDI+
Windows Forms custom control creation
Windows services
ADO.NET
XML
ASP.NET Web Forms applications
User controls and custom controls
XML Web services

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About the Author

Francesco Balena is a well-known and highly regarded developer and author. He has written numerous Microsoft Press� books, including the widely acclaimed Programming Microsoft Visual Basic� titles, and edits a popular Web site on .NET programming. Francesco is a cofounder of Code Architects srl, an Italian software company that specializes in using Microsoft technologies to create enterprise-level solutions and programming tools. In addition, he is a regional director for MSDN� Italy, and a frequent speaker at developer conferences.

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