Beginning VB.NET 2003

Introduction

Chapter 1: Welcome to Visual Basic .NET

Chapter 2: The Microsoft .NET Framework

Chapter 3: Writing Software

Chapter 4: Controlling the Flow

Chapter 5: Working with Data Structures

Chapter 6: Building Windows Applications

Chapter 7: Displaying Dialog Boxes

Chapter 8: Creating Menus

Chapter 9: Debugging and Error Handling

Chapter 10: Building Objects

Chapter 11: Advanced Object-Oriented Techniques

Chapter 12: Building Class Libraries

Chapter 13: Creating Your Own Custom Controls

Chapter 14: Programming Custom Graphics

Chapter 15: Accessing Databases

Chapter 16: Database Programming with SQL Server and ADO.NET

Chapter 17: Web Forms

Chapter 18: Creating Web Server Controls

Chapter 19: Visual Basic .NET and XML

Chapter 20: Web Services and .NET Remoting

Chapter 21: Deploying Your Application

Chapter 22: Building Mobile Applications

Appendix A: Where to Now?

Appendix B: Architecture and Design Patterns

Appendix C: An Introduction to Code Security

Appendix D: Exercise Answers

Appendix E: Differences Between .NET Framework Versions 1.0 and 1.1

Index

Mathew Reynolds After working with Wrox Press on a number of projects since 1999, he is now an in-house author for Wrox Press writing about and working with virtually all aspects of Microsoft .NET. He's also a regular contributor to Wrox's ASPToday and C#Today, and Web Services Architect. He lives and works in North London and can be reached on matthewr@wrox.com.

Richard Blair is Web Application Architect specializing in Microsoft Web Technologies, focusing on emerging technology and its impact on business and development. Key areas that he has helped clients evaluate include: streamlining the electronic business process, expanding access to vital information, and creating usable systems. He now works as a Senior Consultant for SEI-Information Technology. Besides his consulting work, he has also co-authored Professional ASP XML, Beginning Visual Basic .NET, and Professional VB.NET, all published by Wrox Press Ltd.

Richard has a dual concentration bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in English Literature and Theatre, so not only is he a Web Architect, he could play one on TV. Richard welcomes qu estions and comments at richblair@hotmail.com.

Jonathan Crossland is co-author of Professional Windows DNA, Professional VB.NET, and Beginning VB.NET. He is currently working at Yokogawa Electric Corporation in the UK, where he is happily involved with the creation of software for the Batch manufacturing industry. Jonathan has been working in and out of various software technologies for eight years now, and spends most of his time in C# and ASP.NET. Jonathan also works with VB, VB.NET, and web technologies such as JavaScript, DHTML, XML, ASP, and of course, writing Web Services.

Thearon Willis began his career in computers in 1980 as a computer operator. During the fall of 1980 he took a course in BASIC programming using the Radio Shack TSR-80 computer and has been hooked on programming ever since.

After learning the BASIC language, Thearon moved