Visual Basic .NET For Experienced Programmers (Deitel Developer Series)

In Visual Basic .NET: For Experienced Programmers, a team of world-renowned corporate trainers deliver an advanced guide to Visual Basic .NET specifically focused on the features that give professional developers the greatest power. Harvey and Paul Deitel, whose best-selling textbooks have trained millions of developers worldwide, teach Visual Basic .NET's most powerful features using their unique Live-CodeaA A TM approach: every new concept is presented in the context of a complete, working example, immediately followed by windows showing exactly what the code does. The Deitels demonstrate how to make the most of Visual Basic .NET object-oriented features such as inheritance and polymorphism, then offer expert guidance on building advanced GUIs with Windows Forms. They introduce XML programming with Visual Basic .NET, cover multithreading, and present detailed coverage of files and streams, including a full chapter on networking with streams-based sockets and datagrams. The book includes practical techniques for enhancing database access; building Web applications and Web services; and utilizing .NET's powerful collection classes.