Visual, task-based guide is the fastest, easiest route to learning object-oriented programming with Visual Basic .NET.

• Begins with .NET's object-oriented foundations-to show users how to do .NET right!
• Simple step-by-step instructions and straightforward Visual QuickStart format make learning VB .NET programming a breeze.
• Harold Davis, author of the best-selling Visual Basic 6 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide and numerous other computer books, draws on years of programming experience to explore programming for the .NET Framework from the inside out.

Visual Basic .NET for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide provides the key to unlocking the power of the .NET Framework. Using task-based instruction and plenty of visual aids, veteran author Harold Davis provides beginning, intermediate, and even advanced programmers with all the information they need to start creating componentized, reusable code and building Web services with VB .NET. Unlike other books available on the topic, which treat VB .NET more like the next version of Visual Basic, this book emphasizes the totally new object-oriented programming paradigm of .NET.
It begins by introducing users to the Visual Studio development environment and demonstrating how to create a Web service, then moves on to working with classes and using Windows forms.
As the reader's knowledge grows, the tasks become more complex, and by the end of the book users will have learned how to create controls that accept user input, write code that responds to events, work with XML, use the Object Browser, create ASP.NET Web applications, and more.

Contents

• Introduction
• Introducing Visual Studio .NET
• Creating a Web Service
• Working with Classes
• Class Interfaces
• Windows Forms
• Consuming the Web Service
• Message Boxes and If Statements
• Working with MDI Forms
• Exceptions and Debugging
• Controls That Accept User Input
• The Timer Component
• Menus
• The Common Dialog Controls
• The Object Browser
• XML, Data, and ADO.NET
• ASP.NET Web Applications
• Getting Help
• Visual BasicNET Keywords
• Types and Type Conversion

• Index