A short two-pages only but very useful start point to learn .NET capabalities. This document list links to getting started products documentation and help publications sample applications and many more....

Visual Basic has been the most widely accepted programming language in the world and also enjoys the distinction of having the largest band of loyal programmers. Thus Microsoft was left with no choice but to integrate this product into the .NET Framework in the form of VB.NET. In order to accommodate the large troupe of existing VB developers within...

The preceding book encompassed the following three primary aspects -It elucidated the design of the framework by creating unpretentious and simple applications It laid abundant emphasis on the use of the C language. It discoursed about the internal mechanism of the Framework.Thus this book serves as a springboard for any programmer who wishes...

This code will let you use the power of .NETs System.Net.Sockets like the Winsock Control in Visual Basic 6. I have included a nice and compact version of an IRC client which you can use as an example on how to use this class....

This article points to the Differences Between Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C .NET white paper...

This highly-anticipated title provides a clear introduction to game programming for you VB.NET programmers Microsoft insiders have written an easy-to-read guide so you can start programming games quickly. This book even includes an introduction to Managed DirectX9 and other advanced .NET features like animation and sounds. Code examples......

Inheritance is a powerful way of expressing the relationships between types and reusing code across multiple types. Paul Vick focuses on how to build a hierarchy of related classes in VB.NET and to reuse functionality defined in existing classes....

The use of inheritance in VB.NET or really any other programming increases your responsibilities during both the design phase and the coding phase. If you decide to create a class from which other classes will inherit you must make several extra design decisions. This sample book chapter from Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic...

Instrumenting adding self-diagnostic code as you program can make a huge difference in the finished product. In this article Paul Kimmel demonstrates the use of Microsoft s Exception Management Application Block EMAB to help you build bulletproof solutions....

.NET Remoting is among the most advanced .NET subjects. In addition to replacing DCOM and being relevant to distributed application development remoting involves threading Singletons security networking Reflection AppDomains the differences between marshaling by reference and by value SOAP XML serialization interfaces and more. Paul Kimmel...

Database projects are special types of Visual Studio.NET projects which help you create and manage SQL database scripts. The Visual Database tools allow you to view design modify and test database objects without needing to use a different toolset. This chapter shows how to use Visual Database tools in a VS.NET database project....

Get a feel for the C language and walk through the basics while comparing it to elements in Visual Basic....

Just as in the pre-.NET world expect Visual Studio.NET and the languages it supports to be the dominant choices for Windows developers in the future....

Developers can improve the performance of their in-process COM components by assigning appropriate DLL base addresses. Scott Loban describes a strategy for Visual Basic 6.0 developers....

Visual Basic 6.0 s standard string-concatenation tools are not the most efficient ways to concatenate many smaller strings. Scott Loban looks at a better way to handle this task....