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Explains how to develop .NET software with Visual Basic .NET and the framework class library. The guide walks through object-oriented programming, the graphical user interface, multithreading, strings, characters, and graphics. The authors then introduce the basics of marking up data as XML, the structured query language for performing queries, how to create web-based applications, and streams-based networking.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR

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The experienced programmer's Deitel Live-Code guide to Visual Basic .NET and the powerful Microsoft .NET Framework Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers is written for programmers with backgrounds in C++, Visual Basic 6, Java or other high-level languages, who want to learn Visual Basic .NET through the intermediate level. If you already own Visual Basic .NET How To Program, 2/e, you should not purchase Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers. However, you may be interested in our ASP .NET with Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers, which will be published in Spring 2003. Students should not purchase Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers. Instead, students should purchase Visual Basic .NET How To Program, 2/e, as it contains self-review exercises and other ancillary materials suitable for self-study and classroom use. We also recommend that everyone consider The Complete Visual Basic .NET Training Course, 2/e, which includes Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e, and the Visual Basic .NET Cyber Classroom--an interactive, multimedia, Windows-based CD-ROM. The Complete Training Course offers a great value and provides a powerful learning tool for readers who want to pursue Visual Basic .NET programming through the intermediate level. Written for programmers with backgrounds in C++, Visual Basic , Java or other high-level languages, this book applies the Deitels' signature Live-Code approach to teaching programming and explores Microsoft's Visual Basic .NET language in depth. Visual Basic .NET concepts are presented in the context of fully-tested programs, complete with syntax highlighting, detailed line-by-line descriptions and program outputs. The book features 192 Live-Code programs that contain 20,337 lines of proven Visual Basic .NET program code. In addition, the book includes 319 programming tips that help you build applications that are portable, reusable and optimized for performance.Start with condensed discussions of the Visual Studio .NET IDE, control structures, procedures and arrays. Then move rapidly to more advanced topics, including Windows Forms, ADO .NET, ASP .NET, ASP .NET Web services, network programming and XML processing. Along the way you will enjoy the Deitels' classic treatment of object-based and object-oriented programming. When you are finished, you will have everything you need to build next-generation Windows applications, Web applications and XML Web services.Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized IT content-creation and corporate-training organization. Together with their colleagues at Deitel & Associates, Inc., they have written the successful How to Program Series college textbooks that hundreds of thousands of students throughout the world have used to master Visual Basic .NET, C#, C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, XML and other languages.The Deitel Developer Series is designed for practicing programmers. The series presents focused treatments of emerging technologies, including .NET, J2EE, Web services and more. Each book in the series contains the same Live-Code teaching methodology used so successfully in the Deitels' How to Program Series college textbooks. The series includes a broad selection of books suitable for three types of readers: A Technical Introduction Broad overviews of new technologies for programmers, technical managers and other technical professionals A Programmer's Introduction Focused treatments of programming fundamentals for practicing programmers and for novices For Experienced Programmers Detailed treatments of language topics for experienced programmersDEITEL TESTIMONIALS"It is a typically excellent Deitel work. Chapters 5 - 7 were especially strong and the programs for chapters 9, 10, 13, 17 and 18 were at times breathtaking. Wow! You can actually do THAT with VB!"—James Huddleston"Thanks for creating an excellent learning and reference tool. I flipped through at least 20 books relating to VB .NET and Deitel exceeded all of them."—Mary Prince"Your Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition ... contains the perfect balance of theory and practical application."—Sandy Sanford

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Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 41 years' experience in the computing field, including extensive industry and academic experience. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He worked on the pioneering virtual-memory operating-systems projects at IBM and MIT that developed techniques now widely implemented in systems such as Unix, Linux? and Windows XP. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He is the author or co-author of several dozen books and multimedia packages and is writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese and Greek, Dr. Deitel's texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered professional seminars to major corporations, and to government organizations and various branches of the military.Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, where he studied Information Technology. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered Java, C, C++ and Internet and World Wide Web programming courses to industry clients including Compaq, Sun Microsystems, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Dell, Stratus, Fidelity, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Lucent Technologies, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storms Laboratory, IBM and many other organizations. He has lectured on C++ and Java for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and has taught satellite-based Java courses through a cooperative venture of Deitel & Associates, Inc., Prentice Hall and the Technology Education Network. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world's best-selling programming language textbook authors.Tem R. Nieto, Director of Product Development of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied engineering and computing. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered courses for industry clients including Sun Microsystems, Compaq, EMC, Stratus, Fidelity, NASDAQ, Art Technology, Progress Software, Toys "R" Us, Operational Support Facility of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Nynex, Motorola, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Banyan, Schlumberger, University of Notre Dame, NASA, Hewlett-Packard, various military installations and many others. He has co-authored numerous books and multimedia packages with the Deitels and has contributed to virtually every Deitel & Associates, Inc., publication.Cheryl H. Yaeger, Director of Microsoft Software Publications with Deitel & Associates, Inc., graduated from Boston University in three years with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Cheryl has co-authored various Deitel & Associates publications, including C# How to Program, C# A Programmer's Introduction, C# for Experienced Programmers and Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers as well as contributed to other Deitel publications including Perl How to Program, Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to Program, Internet and World Wide Web How to Program, Second Edition and Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition.About Deitel & Associates, Inc.Deitel & Associates, Inc., is an internationally recognized corporate instructor-led training and content-creation organization specializing in Internet/World Wide Web software technology, e-business/e-commerce software technology, object technology and computer programming languages education. The company provides courses in Internet and World Wide Web programming, wireless Internet programming, Web services (in both Java and .NET languages), object technology, and major programming languages and platforms, such as Visual Basic .NET, C#, Visual C++ .NET, Java, Advanced Java, C, C++, XML, Perl, Python, ASP .NET, ADO .NET and more. Deitel & Associates, Inc., was founded by Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel, the world's leading programming-language textbook authors. The company's clients include many of the largest computer companies, government agencies, branches of the military and business organizations. Through its 25-year publishing partnership with Prentice Hall, Deitel & Associates, Inc., publishes leading-edge programming textbooks, professional books, interactive CD-ROM-based multimedia Cyber Classrooms, Complete Training Courses, e-books, e-matter, Web-based training courses and course management systems e-content. 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More than anyone else, experienced developers know the value of learning from real code examples, thoroughly explained, with fully illustrated outputs. That￯﾿ﾽs one reason they￯﾿ﾽre likely to flock to DEITEL & Associates￯﾿ﾽ VB .NET for Experienced Programmers. If you￯﾿ﾽre migrating from VB6 or any other language to VB.NET, this ought to be the first book you read -- and it might just be the only one you￯﾿ﾽll need.

The authors begin with an expert 80-page overview of the .NET platform and Visual Studio .NET themselves -- everything you￯﾿ﾽll need to get rolling fast. Building on what you already know from experience, you￯﾿ﾽll move quickly through VB.NET￯﾿ﾽs fundamentals -- so you can rapidly get to the techniques that make it so powerful.

There are 21,000 lines of tested (and downloadable) code here, enough to illuminate every form of VB.NET development. That includes Windows applications with Windows Forms; ASP.NET multi-tier applications and web services; database applications using SQL and ADO.NET; even wireless .NET programming using Microsoft￯﾿ﾽs Mobile Internet Toolkit. From multithreading to multimedia, regular expressions to data structures and collection classes, it￯﾿ﾽs here -- all covered with the precision and relevance that made Deitel books legendary. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.

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"The experienced programmer's Deitel Live-Code guide to Visual Basic .NET and the powerful Microsoft .NET Framework. Written for programmers with backgrounds in C++, Visual Basic, Java or other high level languages, this book applies the Deitel signature Live-Code approach to teaching programming and explores Microsoft's Visual Basic .NET language in depth. Visual Basic .NET concepts are presented in the context of fully tested programs, complete with syntax highlighting, detailed line-by-line descriptions and program outputs. The book features 192 Live-Code programs that contain 20,337 lines of proven Visual Basic .NET program code. In addition, the book includes 319 programming tips that help you build applications that are portable, reusable and optimized for performance." Start with condensed discussions of the Visual Studio .NET IDE, control structures, procedures and arrays. Then move rapidly to more advanced topics, including Windows Forms, ADO .NET, ASP .NET, ASP ￯﾿ﾽNET Web services, network programming and XML processing. Along the way you will enjoy the Deitels' classic treatment of object-based and object-oriented programming. When you are finished, you will have everything you need to build next-generation Windows applications, Web applications and XML Web services.

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