Murachs Beginning Visual Basic.NET

With this book, you can learn the skills of a professional programmer in just 692 pages. Because of its self-paced approach in the first 7 chapters, you can do that whether youre new to Visual Basic.NET or youre upgrading from Visual Basic 6. From that point on, youre ready for rapid progress as you learn how to develop sophisticated GUIs, how to use the .NET classes for a wide variety of To ensure success, this book includes 18 complete business applications so you can see how the forms, controls, and code of Visual Basic applications work together. Applications like these should be a standard part of all programming books.

Section 1: The Essence of Visual Basic .NET Programming

1. How to get started with Visual Basic .Net
2. How to develop a Windows Forms application
3. Visual Basic language essentials (Part 1)
4. Visual Basic language essentials (Part 2)
5. Visual Basic language essentials (Part 3)
6. How to develop object-oriented applications
7. How to test and debug an application

Section 2 : How to work with Windows forms and controls

8. How to work with Windows controls
9. How to develop a multi-form application
10. How to enhance the user interface

Section 3: More language essentials

11. How to work with dates and strings
12. How to work with arrays and collections
13. How to work with structures and files
14. How to use XML with files
15. More skills for object-oriented programming

Section 4: Database Programming essentials

16. An introduction to database programming
17. How to develop a database application with ADO.NET
18. How to work with bound controls and parameterized queries

Section 5: Web Programming essentials

19. How to develop a Web Forms application
20. How to create and use web services

Anne Prince