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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| An Introduction to the .NET Framework and VB.NET | |
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| Casting the .NET | |
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| Divide and Rule | |
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| The First COMing | |
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| The Elements of COM | |
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| COM Unbecoming | |
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| The Second COMing | |
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| What Is the .NET Framework? | |
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| The Common Type System | |
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| Why .NET Is Better | |
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| Is .NET Another Java? | |
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| Why .NET Depends of Visual Basic | |
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| The Legacy of Visual Basic | |
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| Don't Mind Us: We're Making Moolah | |
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| Componentware Arrives with OLE and COM | |
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| Death of a C++ Programmer | |
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| The Legacy of ASP | |
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| And the VB Machine Rolls On | |
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| And then Along Came a Cpider? | |
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| Entering VB Nirvana | |
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| True Object Orientation | |
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| Structured Exception Handling | |
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| Delegates | |
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| Interfaces | |
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| Multithreading | |
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| Managed Execution | |
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| ADO.NET | |
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| ASP.NET | |
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| Observations | |
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| Introduction to the Common Language Runtime | |
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| The CLR Is More, by Far | |
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| A Hosted Execution Environment | |
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| An Execution Manager | |
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| Assembly Basics | |
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| Assemblies Exposed | |
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| The Elements of the Assembly | |
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| Generating MSIL | |
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| The Common Language Specification | |
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| Language Interoperability | |
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| Metadata | |
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| Down to Executable Code | |
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| "JIT'er" Bugs Beware | |
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| Managed Execution | |
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| Side-by-Side Execution | |
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| Application Domains | |
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| Garbage Collection | |
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| The .NET Security Model | |
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| Just-in-Time (for Tea) Deployment | |
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| Observations | |
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| VB.NET Building Blocks | |
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| Let the Mission Begin | |
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| Goodbye World, Hello VB.NET | |
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| Option Compare, Explicit, and Strict | |
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| Data Type Conversion | |
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| VB.NET Operators | |
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| The Value of True Is--1 | |
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| Operator Precedence | |
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| Unary Operators | |
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| Assignment Operators | |
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| Relational Operators | |
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| Concatenation Operator | |
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| Bitwise Operators | |
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| Arithmetic Operators | |
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| Execution Control Statements | |
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| Branching | |
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| Decision-making and Switches | |
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| Iteration Statements | |
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| Do...Loop | |
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| For...Next | |
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| For Each...Next | |
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| While | |
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| Arrays | |
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| Declaring and Initializing Arrays | |
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| Working with Arrays | |
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| Working with the Array's Upper Boundary | |
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| The Erase Statement | |
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| The IsArray Function | |
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| Collections | |
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| The Collections Namespace | |
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| Strings | |
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| Working with Strings | |
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| The Methods of System.String | |
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| Methods | |
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| Sub-procedures and Functions | |
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| Observations | |
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| Object-Oriented Software Development Using VB.NET | |
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| Types | |
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| The .NET Value Type Reference Model | |
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| The .NET Object Reference Model | |
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| Inheritance, Encapsulation, and Polymorphism in VB.NET | |
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| Inheritance | |
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| Encapsulation | |
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| Polymorphism | |
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| A "Real-World" Scenario | |
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| Designing the Application | |
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| Modeling | |
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| Creating Classes | |
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| Class Visibility and Role | |
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| Encapsulation at Work | |
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| Creating a Class Others Can Use | |
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| Inheritance at Work | |
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| Implementation in the Parent Class | |
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| Adding the Methods | |
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| Object-Oriented Development at Work | |
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| Inheriting the Implementation | |
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| Using the Classes | |
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| Instantiation | |
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| Observations | |
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| VB.NET in Action | |
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| .NET Exception Handling | |
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| The Exception Handler | |
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| Exit Try and Finally | |
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| Nesting Exception Handlers | |
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| Creating Your Own Exception Classes | |
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| Extending the Base Class | |
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| Object Serialization and .NET I/O | |
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| Serialization Part I | |
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| I/O Support in .NET | |
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| Serialization Part II | |
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| Serialization Part III | |
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| ADO.NET | |
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| ADO Revisited | |
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| Enter ADO.NET | |
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| Connection Architecture | |
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| XML | |
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| Implementing Database Integration with ADO.NET | |
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| Interfaces | |
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| Forms | |
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| Windows Forms and Web Forms | |
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| The Graphical Login | |
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| ASP.NET | |
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| ASP.NET in Action | |
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| Creating a Simple Web Service | |
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| Observations | |
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| Migration to and Interoperability of VB.NET | |
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| Protecting Your Investment in Existing Code | |
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| Stay in Classic VB | |
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| Migrate Code to VB.NET | |
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| Rewrite | |
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| Is It Worth Porting? | |
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| Using the Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard | |
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| Understanding the Upgrade Process | |
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| Upgrading COM and COM+ Services Using the Wizard | |
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| Upgrade Tools for Interop | |
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| Accessing COM Components from VB.NET Clients | |
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| Using the TLBIMP Utility | |
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| Calling .NET Objects form COM or Standard VB Clients | |
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| Understanding Object Lifetime and Deterministic Finalization | |
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| Moving from ASP to ASP.NET | |
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| Observations | |
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| Making the Move to VB.NET | |
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| What Makes a Software Development Language | |
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| The Way It Was | |
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| The Way It Is | |
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| Syntax and Idioms | |
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| Managed Execution, Managed Code ... and Java | |
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| User Interfaces | |
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| VB.NET: The Best RAD Tool | |
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| Late Binding | |
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| VB.NET With Blocks | |
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| Market Demand | |
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| Observations | |
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| Index | |