Author(s):Francesco Balena (Wintellect)
With at-least of 1600 pages covers the whole of Visual Basic .net. A good reference book if you are a student or any professional who needs to get the new generation of Microsoft Certification. It takes a Bottom-Up approach, initially dealing with the .Net framework itself, covering the various aspects of a programming language like Variables, Loops, Condition statements, Modules, Control flow and so on.
In the second part Object Oriented Programming (OOP's) concepts are explained in a detailed and in a concise manner, and covers Overloading, Overriding, Events, Constructors and Destructors and similar OOP's concepts . The third part again deals with the .Net framework in a detailed manner covering topics such as Boxing and Un-Boxing, Serialization, Threading and similar topics. Basics of using and developing applications using Windows Form is covered up in the fourth part.
The fifth part is dedicated to Databases i.e. ADO.net and deals with using databases with VB.net in Connected and Disconnected mode and also XML related topics. And the last part deals with ASP.net programming using VB.net.
Overall this book is a must read for any one who wants to learn VB.net programming from the ground-up to the expert level.
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