Create powerful and complex applications using this hard-core and practical resource. You'll learn how to take advantage of Visual Basic.NET's powerful new object-oriented features and understand the core differences between VB and VB.NET. Divided into seven easy-to-navigate chapters, "Visual Basic.NET Developer's Headstart is designed to deliver expert information, tips, and advice for migrating and implementing Visual Basic.NET applications.

Key topics include:

• Visual Basic.NET overview
• Comparing Visual Basic.NET to Visual Basic 6, Delphi, Java, and C#
• Migrating existing code to Visual Basic.NET
• Understanding the Common Language Runtime and the Common Language Specification

Unveil the power of Visual Basic.NET. Discover how to build robust applications.

Important coverage includes:

• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Encapsulation
• Arrays
• Strings
• Win Forms
• Web Forms
• Web Services
• Serialization
• Legacy code integration