Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library

by Powers, Lars; Snell, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780672322327
• ISBN10: 0672322323
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Sams

Summary

Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library covers how to delineate and define the pieces of .NET; how and why .NET was conceived and what this means to VB6/Windows DNA developers; how to execute Windows programming using the .NET namespaces; instructs how to make architecture decisions when using .NET namespaces; provides details about the construction of Web Services and how they communicate with each other; call-outs and highlighted sections illustrate concepts by relating previous VB6/Windows DNA best practices with the new .NET approach.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xx
Preface	xxiii
Introduction	1	(4)
Part I An Introduction to .NET	5	(76)
Evolution of .NET	7	(22)
Evolution of VB .NET	29	(20)
Object-Oriented Concepts in .NET	49	(14)
Introduction to the .NET Framework Class Library	63	(18)
Part II Working with the .NET Namespaces	81	(722)
Forms, Menus, and Controls	83	(70)
Font, Text, and Printing Operations	153	(60)
Stream and File Operations	213	(60)
Networking Functions	273	(70)
Drawing Functions	343	(68)
Reading and Writing XML	411	(78)
XSLT and XPath	489	(50)
Working with Threads	539	(58)
Messaging	597	(94)
Browser/Server Communications	691	(30)
Data Storage and Access	721	(54)
Directory Services	775	(28)
Part III Real-World .NET Programming	803	(292)
Accessing COM+ Services	805	(44)
.NET Interop with COM Applications	849	(20)
Managing Collections of Objects	869	(26)
Profiling, Debugging, and Exception Handling	895	(30)
Globalization and Localization Techniques	925	(24)
Deploying, Configuring, and Licensing .NET Components	949	(146)
Calling the Win32 API from Managed Code	977	(12)
Win32 API-to-Namspace Cross-Reference	989	(90)
.NET Security Models	1079	(12)
.NET Framework Base Data Types	1091	(4)
Index	1095