Apress - Moving to VB .NET - Strategies, Concepts, and Code, Second Edition

• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• Moving to VB .NET - Strategies, Concepts, and Code, Second Edition
• Foreword
• Introduction
  • Regarding Microsoft
  • Regarding Source Code
  • Regarding This Edition
  • Regarding Desaware
  • An Important Note Regarding Code in This Book
  • Another Important Note Regarding Code in This Book
• Part I: Strategies
  • Chapter 1: Where Should You Begin?
    • The Importance of Context (Keeping Things in Perspective)
    • .NET - Is It Real or Is It Marketing?
  • Chapter 2: Facing VB .NET without Fear or Panic
    • Oh My God, They Broke VB!
    • Everything You Know Is Now Obsolete
    • The Business of Software Development
  • Chapter 3: Adoption Strategies
    • Time Frames
    • Porting Code
    • Deployment Considerations
    • What about C#?
    • Visual Studio 2002 or 2003?
    • What about Alternatives to .NET from Sources Other Than Microsoft?
    • Moving On
• Part II: Concepts
  • Chapter 4: .NET in Context
    • The Virtual Machine
    • COM Is Dead. Long Live COM?
    • The Common Language Runtime
    • Recap: Why .NET?
  • Chapter 5: Inheritance
    • The Mantra of Code Reuse
    • Inheritance in .NET
    • A Closer Look at Inheritance in VB .NET
    • Recap
  • Chapter 6: Memory Management in VB .NET
    • Value Objects and Reference Objects
    • Revisiting Garbage Collection
    • Off the Deep End - Resurrection Exists
    • Recap
  • Chapter 7: VB .NET Multithreading
    • A Quick Introduction to Multithreading
    • The Benefits of Multithreading
    • Taking a Dip in a Thread Pool
    • Recap
• Part III: Code
  • Chapter 8: Data Types and Operators
    • The Numeric Types
    • Non-Numeric Data Types
    • Declarations
    • Conversions and Type Checking
    • Operators
    • Recap
  • Chapter 9: Language Syntax
    • Rational Calling Mechanism
    • Scoping Rules
    • Error Handling
    • Other Language Changes
    • Commands That Have Vanished
    • The Microsoft.VisualBasic and Compatibility Namespaces
    • Recap
  • Chapter 10: Objects In-Depth
    • Scoping in VB .NET
    • More about Classes
    • Methods and Properties
    • Events and Delegates
    • Recap
  • Chapter 11: Reflection and Attributes
    • On Compilers and Interpreters
    • Reflection
    • Binding
    • A Late Bound Surprise
    • Dynamic Loading
    • Recap
    • Interlude
• Part IV: The Wonderful World of .NET
  • Chapter 12: .NET Namespaces - The Grand Tour
    • Let the Tour Begin
    • If It's Tuesday, It Must Be System
    • Collections
    • Drawing
    • Printing
    • Serialization and Data Management
    • Resources and Localization
    • Asynchronous Programming
    • Recap
  • Chapter 13: Windows Applications
    • A Whole New Forms Package
    • Patterns and System.Windows.Forms
    • Navigating the System.Windows.Forms Namespace
    • Exploring Further
    • Recap
  • Chapter 14: Internet Applications and Services
    • What Is Microsoft .NET?
    • Programming the Internet
    • The .NET Way of Designing Applications
    • Remoting - the Other Distributed Technology
    • A Quick Aside with Winsock
    • A Guest Commentary
    • Recap
  • Chapter 15: COM Interop and Accessing the Win32 API
    • COM Interop
    • Calling COM Objects from .NET
    • Accessing .NET Objects from COM
    • Accessing the Win32 API
    • Recap
  • Chapter 16: Living with .NET
    • Versioning and .NET
    • Security
    • Bits and Pieces
    • Recap
  • Chapter 17: Conclusion
• Index
  • Index_A
  • Index_B
  • Index_C
  • Index_D
  • Index_E
  • Index_F
  • Index_G
  • Index_H
  • Index_I
  • Index_J
  • Index_K
  • Index_L
  • Index_M
  • Index_N
  • Index_O
  • Index_P
  • Index_R
  • Index_S
  • Index_T
  • Index_U
  • Index_V
  • Index_W
  • Index_X
  • Index_Z
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Examples