Application Development Using Visual Basic and .Net

This book "Application Development using Visual Basic and .NET" gives an innovative dimension of pragmatic approach to application development using VB. NET. This book is a part of the Integrated .NET Series from Object Innovations and Prentice Hall PTR. This book provides methodical exposure to the VB .NET language from the foundation. This book is appropriate for experienced programmers, providing a concrete, concise and in-depth introduction to VB. NET with a lot of example programs and case studies that continues through many of the chapters. This book covers all the essential topics of VB .NET in detail along with thrilling case studies. The book wraps the topics such as .NET Fundamentals, VB .NET language essentials, Inheritance, Exceptions, Collections, Interfaces, Events, Attributes, Windows Forms, Windows Forms Controls, GDI+, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Web Forms, Web services, Interoperability, Security and more! Organization of this Book: This book is organized into six major parts and is structured to make it easy for you to navigate to what you need to learn. Part 1 - .NET Architecture OverviewPart 2 - VB .NET LanguagePart 3 - Fundamentals of Windows FormsPart 4 - Fundamentals of .NET FrameworkPart 5 - Advanced UI programming using VB .NETPart 6 - .NET ApplicationsLet us observe these six parts in detail. The Part1 offers an orientation to the overall architecture and features of .NET. The first two chapters, provides a fine introduction to .NET Framework and the programming model of the .NET Framework. The Part2 presents the core features of VB .NET. The chapters 3-6, talks about VB .NET programming language including data types, object oriented programming features available in VB .NET and inspects the interactions between VB .NET and .NET Framework. Visual Basic .NET supports many new or improved object-oriented language features such as inheritance, overloading, the Overrides keyword, interfaces, shared members, and constructors. The third chapter in this part provides an in-depth coverage of object oriented features of VB .NET. The running Acme Travel Agency case study is introduced in chapter 5, which will give you a clear picture about how concepts work together when you build .NET applications. Part3 covers the fundamentals of Windows Forms. Windows Forms is the new platform for Microsoft Windows application development, based on the .NET Framework. This framework provides a clear, object-oriented, extensible set of classes that enables you to develop rich Windows applications. The System.Windows.Forms namespace contains classes for creating Windows-based applications that take full advantage of the rich user interface features available in the Microsoft Windows operating system. Chapters 7 and 8 provides a systematic coverage on the core topics such as Windows Forms, including Form design, controls, events, menus, toolbars, dialog boxes etc.The Part 4 gives details about fundamental topics in .NET framework. Chapter 9 explains