Visual Basic .NET Tips & Techniques

This book examines hundreds of ways you can exploit Visual Basic .NET capabilities and
features built into the .NET environment. Each Tip provides ready-to-run source code that you can
use to experiment with a programming concept or that you can cut and paste into your own
programs. Further, each Tip provides step-by-step explanations of the processing the code performs.
In this book’s chapters, you will:

• Learn how to exploit Visual Basic .NET’s object-oriented programming capabilities, such as classes, inheritance, interfaces, and reflection.
  
• Understand how your programs can use the Common Language Runtime and Base Class Library’s thousands of programming-language independent methods and classes to accomplish specific tasks.
  
• Learn about the “common dialogs,” which your programs can use to display standardized dialog boxes for operations that open, save, and print files and for selecting fonts and colors.
  
• See how Visual Basic .NET supports multiple threads of execution which create the illusion that your program is performing two or more tasks at the same time.
  
• Explore ways in which the .NET environment makes the forms-based user interface available to all programming languages through the use of Windows forms.
  
• Use the Try-Catch statement to detect and respond to an exception (which programmers refer to as structured error handling).
  
• Create an ASP.NET Web page using a compiled programming language such as Visual Basic .NET or C#.
  
• Create and use Web services (functions or subroutines a program can call remotely to accomplish a specific task) using Visual Studio.
  
• Learn how the .NET environment replaces the ADO model for database access with ADO.NET.
  
• Explore the many operations you can perform in Visual Basic .NET to quickly improve your program’s performance and functionality.
  
• And much more! 

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