* Professional Visual Basic .NET skills are in heavy demand sinceit's often the easiest and fastest way to connect the manycomponents that are required in an enterprise-levelapplication* Includes thirty one-hour lessons that recreate a typicalweek-long introductory seminar* Covers the critical information that every VB .NET developershould know* The author has written more than thirty courses in applicationdevelopment, messaging, and network development and is currentlytraining for AutoDesk* Companion Web site features an online presentation by theauthor that follows along with each chapter and includes anaudio-only option for readers with dial-up Internet connection

Acknowledgments.About the Authors.Introduction.Part One: The .NET Experience.Chapter 1: Nothing but .NET.Chapter 2: Building Visual Basic .NET Windows Applications.Chapter 3: Examining Visual Basic .NET.Chapter 4: Debugging and Exception Handling.Part Two: Middle-Tier Development in .NET.Chapter 5: Advanced .NET Windows Applications.Chapter 6: Building Class Libraries in .NET.Chapter 7: Extending Visual Basic .NET Classes.Chapter 8: Implementation Inheritance.Chapter 9: Interfaces and Polymorphism.Chapter 10: Data Access in .NET.Chapter 11: Memory Management and Performance Monitoring.Chapter 12: Threading.Part Three: Web Technologies in .NET.Chapter 13: ASP.NET.Chapter 14: Data Control and XML in Web Applications.Chapter 15: XML Web Services.Part Four: Distribution and Interoperability in .NET.Chapter 16: Interoperability.Chapter 17: Mobile Internet Toolkit.Chapter 18: Localization and Globalization.Chapter 19: Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET Migration.Chapter 20: Distributing .NET Projects.Appendix A: Installing .NET.Appendix B: About the 60 Minutes Web Site.Appendix C: Glossary.Index.