Publisher's Synopsis
The purpose of this book is to assist developers to get up to speed with the .NET Framework and the Visual Studio .NET IDE .NET languages quickly and effectively. It should help experienced Visual Basic developers note the key similarities, and differences, between their current language and Visual Basic .NET.;The focus of this book is on the overall capabilities of the language, it includes the most important features required by a Visual Basic developer to begin using Visual Basic .NET. The intent is not to give an encyclopedic coverage of Visual Basic .NET, but rather, to get Visual Basic developers using Visual Basic .NET efficiently as quickly as possible. Topics covered include: an introduction to the .NET Framework, including new IDE and language features; new Windows user interface capabilities; new object-oriented and web capabilities of Visual Basic .NET; data access using Visual Basic .NET; installation and deployment; and interoperability and migration.
