Visual Basic.NET

The authoritative DEITEL(TM) LIVE-CODE(TM) introduction to Windows(R), .NET, Internet and World Wide Web programming in Visual Basic(R) .NET

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(R) .NET, C#, Visual C++(R) .NET, Java(TM), C++, C, XML(TM), 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(R)
• Database/ADO.NET/SQL
• Assemblies/Modules/Exceptions
• GUI/Forms/Controls/Visual Inheritance
• Web Services/ASP.NET/Web Forms
• XML/XSLT(TM) /DOM(TM) /DTD/Schema
• VoiceXML(TM) /RegularExpressions
• Files/Streams/Multimedia/Graphics/GDI+
• Multithreading/Client-Server/Networking
• Session Tracking/Cookies/Accessibility
• HTML 4/XHTML(TM) /COM Integration

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

• Hundreds of LIVE-CODE(TM) 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

"Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e" is the centerpiece of a complete family of resources for teaching and learning Visual Basic .NET, including several Web sites (www.deitel.com and www.prenhall.com/deitel) with the book's source-code examples (which are also on the enclosed CD) and other information for faculty, students and professionals; an optional interactive CD ("Visual Basic .NET Multimedia Cyber Classroom, 2/e") containing hyperlinks, solutions to half the book's exercises and audio walkthroughs of the book's code examples; and e-mail access to the authors at:
deitel@deitel.com

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