This book is targeted at experienced Visual Basic 6 developers who are looking toward the future – Microsoft's .NET platform and its associated Framework. The aim of this book is bring VB6 developers quickly up to speed in these (and other) new important features of Visual Basic .NET.
This book covers not only a new version of Visual Basic, but also the new programming platform on which it runs. It is aimed at developers with a good working knowledge of VB, or ASP and VBScript. No attempt is made at providing a tutorial about the VB language, other than comparisons between VB6 and Visual Basic .NET code techniques, so a good familiarity with VB6 (or at least VBA or VBScript) is necessary to get the full benefit from this book.
This book will also appeal to web developers who are using ASP.NET and intend to use the VB language when developing their ASP.NET sites. The level of integration between ASP.NET and Visual Basic .NET far exceeds that between ASP and VB6, and a comprehensive understanding of Visual Basic .NET will be a huge asset to any web developer using ASP.NET.
The .NET Framework provides a powerful new way to program for both Windows and the Internet, and this may well attract experienced developers from other platforms and languages to .NET and the Visual Basic .NET language. This book will appeal to these people as it provides discussion and examples of commonly performed programming tasks and techniques, allowing rapid transition from other platforms or languages to Visual Basic .NET.
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