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鈥攁 premier language in Microsoft’s new .NET initiative鈥攁s 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庐 .NET, C#, Visual C庐 .NET, Java鈩?/sup>, C, C, XML鈩?/sup>, 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, CHow 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庐
• Database/ADO.NET/SQL
• Assemblies/Modules/Exceptions
• GUI/Forms/Controls/Visual Inheritance
• Web Services/ASP.NET/Web Forms
• XML/XSLT鈩?/sup>/DOM鈩?/sup>/DTD/Schema
• VoiceXML鈩?/sup>/Regular Expressions
• Files/Streams/Multimedia/Graphics/GDI
• Multithreading/Client-Server/Networking
• Session Tracking/Cookies/Accessibility
• HTML 4/XHTML鈩?/sup>/COM Integration

Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e includes extensive pedagogic features:

• Hundreds of LIVE-CODE鈩?/sup> 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鈥攁ll marked with icons