Visual Basic.net Developer's Headstart

Jacket Description/Back: A Developer's Resource for Building and Implementing a Visual Basic. NET StrategyCreate powerful and complex applications using this hard-core and practical resource. You'll learn how to take advantage of Visual Basic. NET's powerful new object-oriented features and understand the core differences between VB and VB. NET. Divided into seven easy-to-navigate chapters, "Visual Basic. NET Developer's Headstart is designed to deliver expert information, tips, and advice for migrating and implementing Visual Basic. NET applications. Key topics include: Visual Basic. NET overview Comparing Visual Basic. NET to Visual Basic 6, Delphi, Java, and C# Migrating existing code to Visual Basic. NET Understanding the Common Language Runtime and the Common Language Specification Unveil the power of Visual Basic. NET. Discover how to build robust applications. Important coverage includes: Inheritance Polymorphism Encapsulation Arrays Strings Win Forms Web Forms Web Services Serialization Legacy code integration Publisher Marketing: This developer's guide provides a complete Visual Basic. NET overview. It shows how Visual Basic. NET compares to C# and Java, and teaches readers how to migrate existing Visual Basic applications to Visual Basic. NET. There is in-depth coverage that includes: common language runtime; legacy code integration; inheritance; polymorphism; encapsulation; and garbage collection. Contributor Bio:  Shapiro, Jeffrey Jeffrey Shapiro, MCSE, MCTS, MCPD, is the author of "SQL Server 2000: The Complete Reference" as well as 11 other technology books. He is currently working on a variety of SQL Server business intelligence projects for Fortune 100 companies in Orlando, Florida.