What is this book about? .NET is designed to provide a new environment within which you can develop almost any application to run on Windows (and possibly in the future on other platforms). Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is likely to be a very popular development tool for use with this framework. VB.NET is a .NET compliant language and, as such, has (except for legacy reasons) almost identical technical functionality as the new C# language and Managed Extensions for C++. Using VB.NET, you can develop a dynamic Web page, a component of a distributed application, a database access component, or a classic Windows desktop application. In order to incorporate Visual Basic into the .NET Framework, a number of new features have been added to it. In fact, the changes are so extensive that VB.NET should be viewed as a new language rather than simply as Visual Basic 7. However, these changes were necessary to give developers the features that they have been asking for: true object orientated programming, easier deployment, better interoperability, and a cohesive environment in which to develop applications. What does this book cover? In this book, we cover VB.NET virtually from start to finish: We begin by looking at the .NET Framework, and end by looking at best practices for deploying .NET applications. In between, we look at everything from database access to integration with other technologies such as XML, along with investigating the new features in detail. You will see that VB.NET has emerged as a powerful yet easy to use language that will allow you to target the Internet just as easily as the desktop. This book explains the underlying philosophy and design of the .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime (CLR) and explains the differences between Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET. You will learn how to  Develop applications and components using Visual Studio .NET Effectively apply inheritance and interfaces when designing objects and components Organize your code using namespaces Handle errors using the Try...Catch...Finally structure Access data using ADO.NET and bind controls to the underlying data sources Create Windows applications and custom Windows controls Interoperate with COM and ActiveX components Create transactional and queuing components Use .NET Remoting to send serialized objects between clients and servers Create Windows Services Use VB.NET to access information on the Web Create and consume Web Services Secure your applications and code using the tools provided in the .NET Framework SDK Arrange your applications and libraries in assemblies and deploy them using Visual Studio .NET  Who is this book for? This book is aimed at experienced Visual Basic developers who want to make the transition to VB.NET. What do you need to use this book? Although it is possible to create VB.NET applications using the command lines tools contained in the .NET Framework SDK, you will need Visual Studio .NET (Professional or higher), which includes the .NET Framework SDK, to use this book to the full. Here are some additional notes on what you may need:  Some chapters make use of SQL Server 2000. However, you can also run the example code using MSDE (Microsoft Data Engine), which ships with Visual Studio .NET. Several chapters make use of Internet Information Services (IIS). IIS ships with Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows XP, although it is not installed by default. Chapter 18 makes use of MSMQ to work with queued transactions. MSMQ ships with Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows XP, although it is not installed by default.

Professional VB.NET

Computers & Technology

Sempf, Bill

Lhotka, Rockford

McCarthy, Tim

Sheldon, Bill

Hollis, Billy

Reynolds, Matthew

Case, Richard

Blair, Richard

Barwell, Fred

Crossland, Jonathan

Ramachandran, Rama

Roth, John

Narkiewicz, Jan D.

Forgey, Bill

Pinnock, Jonathan

Hankison, Whitney

Programming

Wrox

What is this book about? Microsoft considers Visual Basic.NET to be the language of choice for applications where developer productivity is a top priority. It offers you the ability to program against the .NET Framework, and the most recent version includes tools for programming today’s hot mobile applications. This code-laden reference covers VB.NET 2003 from start to finish. These pages help you discover how to apply object-oriented concepts in design and development to create effective business applications. You will be able to access data using ADO.NET, integrate VB.NET with XML, create both Windows applications and Web services, and much more. Finally, you explore best practices for deploying .NET applications and understand the power of VB.NET in development that targets the Internet as easily as the desktop. What does this book cover? Here are just a few of the things you'll discover in this book: <ul>
<li>How to create new namespaces and import and alias existing namespaces within projects</li> <li>Error-handling methods using the Try...Catch...Finally structure</li> <li>How to work with data binding and update the underlying data source in Windows applications</li> <li>Methods for developing multithreaded applications</li> <li>How .NET Remoting is used to exchange serialized objects between clients and servers</li> <li>The differences between Mobile Web and .NET Compact Framework applications</li> </ul>
Who is this book for? This book is for experienced developers who are making the transition to VB.NET or seeking a deeper understanding of the most common VB.NET programming tasks and concepts.

Professional VB.NET 2003

Evjen, Bill

<ul>
<li>Visual Basic .NET has changed dramatically from its predecessor, and this book shows developers how to build traditional console applications, ASP.NET applications, XML Web Services, and more</li> <li>The top-notch author team shares their years of experience in VB programming and helps readers take their skills to new heights</li> <li>Addresses issues such as security, data access (ADO.NET), and the latest Visual Studio .NET IDE</li> <li>Explores Common Language Runtime, variables and data types, object syntax, inheritance and interfaces, Windows forms, error handling and debugging, XML, namespaces, and advanced features of the latest version of ASP.NET</li> </ul>

Professional VB 2005

Sharkey, Kent

Do you want to create .NET applications that provide high performance and scalability? Do you want to employ object–oriented programming techniques in a distributed environment? Do you want to maximize the reuse and maintainability of your code? Then this book is for you.
In Rockford Lhotka's Expert C# 2008 Business Objects, you'll learn how to use advanced .NET Framework capabilities alongside object-oriented design and programming to create scalable, maintainable object–oriented applications. Better still, this book includes Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture (CSLA) .NET 3.6, a widely-used framework on which you can base your application development. By using the concepts and framework in the book, you can focus more on your business issues and less on technology. 
Using VS 2008 and C# 3.0, Rockford Lhotka shows you how CSLA .NET 3.6 allows great flexibility in object persistence, so business objects can use virtually any data sources available. The CSLA framework supports 1–, 2– and n–tier models through the concept of mobile objects. This provides the flexibility to optimize performance, scalability, security, and fault tolerance with no changes to code in the UI or business objects.
Business objects based on CSLA.NET 3.6 automatically gain many advanced features that simplify the creation of Windows forms, web forms, WPF, WCF, WF, and web services interfaces, and LINQ.

Expert C# 2008 Business Objects (Expert's Voice in .NET)

Apress

Do you want to create .NET applications that provide high performance and scalability? Do you want to employ object-oriented programming techniques in a distributed environment? Do you want to maximize the reuse and maintainability of your code? Then this book is for you. In Rockford Lhotka's Expert VB 2008 Business Objects, you'll learn how to use advanced .NET Framework capabilities alongside object-oriented design and programming to create scalable, maintainable object-oriented applications. Better still, this book includes Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture (CSLA) .NET 3.6, a widely-used framework on which you can base your application development. By using the concepts and framework in the book, you can focus more on your business issues, and less on technology. Having updated this third edition using Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic 2008, Rockford Lhotka shows you how CSLA .NET 3.6 allows great flexibility in object persistence, so business objects can use virtually any data sources available. The CSLA framework supports 1-, 2-, and n-tier models through the concept of mobile objects. This provides the flexibility to optimize performance, scalability, security, and fault tolerance with no changes to code in the user interface or business objects. Business objects based on CSLA .NET 3.6 automatically gain many advanced features that simplify the creation of Windows forms, web forms, WPF, WCF, WF and Web Services interfaces, and LINQ. What you'll learnWho this book is for This book is for Visual Basic .NET developers using Visual Studio 2008 who want to create .NET applications that provide high performance and scalability, and employ object-oriented programming techniques in a distributed environment.

Expert VB 2008 Business Objects

Fallon, Joe

Computer Science

Popular conference speaker "Rocky" Lhotka shows how to use the framework to create a sample application and demonstrates how easy it is to write Windows, Web, and Web services interfaces for applications based on it.

Expert VB 2005 Business Objects (Expert's Voice in .NET)

When Rocky first presented his incredibly significant CSLA.NET architecture and framework, he helped trigger a sea-change in the mindset of VB enterprise developers that is still at work today. His depth of thinking now influences developers across the language boundaries, and the previous editions of the books were bestsellers. Deep Q&amp;A sessions spark up every time Rocky speaks; it seems that an entire generation of professional .NET programmers are employing Rocky's ideas in their critical work. Rocky has thought through the enterprise problem space deeply, and he is a modern master at answering the practical questions. On Wiley acquisition editor Jim Minatel's blog, he gives his opinion of the commercial potential of the book: "Shoudln't be a surprise that Rocky is working on revisions of his Business Objects books. Man do I wish these were Wrox books. That's not some great secret either, right? Yes, out of the 30-something best-selling books we bought we missed the potential for Rocky's then-unpublished book. I'd still say we were 90% or better successful in picking the right books. But I'll reiterate, man I wish these were ours".

Expert C# 2005 Business Objects (Expert's Voice in .NET)

Visual Basic 5 uses much of the same code as previous Visual Basic, so this book does not waste time on introductory Visual Basic programming. Instead, the text starts by explaining how to create OLE servers using the new tools in VB5. The book walks through a number of control projects, discussing both the design and implementation of ActiveX controls for the Web.

Instant Visual Basic 5 Activex Control Creation

Homer, Alex

Enfield, Andrew

Hartwell, Bruce

Gill, Darren

Jewell, Dave

Web Development & Design

This book is aimed at experienced application developers, who have developed applications in Windows using Visual Basic. It will also appeal to intermediate-level programmers because it presents components and techniques that can easily be integrated into their applications.

Visual Basic 6.0 Business Objects

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