Visual Basic .NET Black Book

 Welcome to your Visual Basic .NET support package. That's what this book has been written to be: your complete Visual Basic .NET support package. It has been designed to be the one you turn to first, the one that gives you more of what you want than any other.

I've crammed as much Visual Basic .NET into this book as possible, broken down into hundreds of easily-accessible topics, each short and to the point, and each with an example. The format here is like no other computer book series, and it's designed to give you exactly what you want, when you want it.

And that's not an easy job, because the subject of this book, Visual Basic .NET, is huge. I've used and written about Visual Basic even before version 1.0 came out and in those 10 years, Visual Basic has grown in power and complexity enormously. The changes in Visual Basic .NET are immense, and this book has been entirely rewritten from its predecessor, the Visual Basic 6 Black Book.

That book was a bestseller, but this, the entirely new edition, is far better. (At least in my opinion, and I wrote both books.) There's much more material here, in greater depth, and there are many more of the programming "nuggets" that programmers want to see.

This book has been designed to give you the Visual Basic .NET coverage you just won't find in any other book. Other books often omit not only the larger topics, like deploying your program after you've created it, but also the smaller ones like covering just about every Windows and Web control that comes with Visual Basic .NET in depth-from the text box control to three-state checkboxes, from datetime pickers to hot tracking tab controls, and from Web page validation controls to ad rotators. And the advancedtopics are here too, like creating your own Windows and Web controls, writing Windows and Web services, distributed data applications, multithreading, deploying applications, learn moreVisual Basic .NET Black Book