programming experience, the book covers the major areas of application development for Microsoft's new .NET platform.After starting with the traditional "hello world" application, the book discusses the two basic building blocks of any .NET application built with Visual Basic--the Visual Basic .NET programming language and the .NET Framework.Topics covered include:Visual Basic language elementsVisual Basic's object-oriented language featuresProgramming with attributesThe Common Language RuntimeGarbage Collection and the Finalize and Dispose methodsProgrammatically reading from and writing to .NET configuration filesThe remainder of the book focuses on the three major kinds of applications that can be developed with the .NET Framework: Windows Forms applications, ASP.NET applications, and web services. In each case, the book shows you how to build an application using Visual Studio .NET as well as using a text editor and the VisualBasic command-line compiler. This gives you an "under the hood" look at what Visual Studio is doing and allows you to gain a greater understanding of how a .NET application works--an understanding that you can take advantage of in building your own applications. Individual development topics covered in these chapters include:Developing Multiple Document Interface (MDI) Windows Forms applications.Handling form and control placement and resizingWorking with Windows Forms menusWorking with Windows Common DialogsTaking advantage of .NET printer services programmaticallyUsing ASP.NET HTML controls and Web controlsUnderstanding security in ASP.NETCreating, discovering, and consuming web servicesAccessing data in your .NET applications using ADO.NETPublished just in time for the first release of Visual Studio .NET,Programming Visual Basic .NET is sure to become a key component of developers' .NET libraries.

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