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Beginning ASP.NET in VB .NET guides you through Microsoft's technology for building dynamic websites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes only the most basic knowledge of Visual Basic .NET.

The book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and performance tuning your site. Within these pages, you'll find tips for “best practices” and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you'll need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you off on the track to build real-world websites right from the beginning—rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.

By the time you've finished the book, you will have mastered the core techniques and have all the knowledge you need to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer.

An Introductory text on VB.Net using Visual Basic.Net 2008 Express Edition. The easiest technical book you'll ever read. Open it up and see for yourself. Join Professor Smiley's Visual Basic.Net class as he teaches essential skills in programming, coding and more. Using a student-instructor conversational format, this book starts at the very beginning with crucial programming fundamentals. You'll quickly learn how to identify customer needs so you can create an application that achieves programming objectives---just like experienced programmers. By identifying clear client goals, you'll learn important programming basics---like how computers view input and execute output based on the information they are given---then use those skills to develop real-world applications. Participate in this one-of-a-kind classroom experience and see why Professor Smiley is renowned for making learning fun and easy.

Build real-world programming skills—and prepare for MCP Exams 70-306 and 70-316—with this official Microsoft study guide. Work at your own pace through the lessons and hands-on exercises to learn how to build Windows-based applications using Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET. Then extend your expertise through additional skill-building exercises. As you gain practical experience with essential development tasks, you’re also preparing for MCAD or MCSD certification for Microsoft .NET.

Learn how to:

• Create the user interface, add controls, and validate user input
• Use OOP techniques, including encapsulation and method overloading
• Build custom controls and .NET assemblies
• Access and modify data using XML, Microsoft ADO.NET, and SQL syntax
• Implement print support, online help, and accessibility and globalization features
• Test and debug coding errors
• Configure and help secure an application
• Deploy applications via removable media, the Web, or a network
• Maintain and optimize application performance

Your kit includes:

• NEW—60-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET 2003 Professional Edition on DVD
• Comprehensive self-paced study guide that maps to the objectives of the final exams
• NEW—Expanded coverage of ADO.NET, SQL syntax, Windows Forms, debugging, and security
• NEW—150 challenging practice questions on CD. Test yourself by exam (70-306 or 70-316) or by individual objective(s). Choose the number of questions and timed or untimed mode. You get automated scoring and detailed explanations for both correct and incorrect answers.
• Learn-by-doing exercises for skills you can apply to the job
• Side-by-side code examples and labs for Visual C# .NET and Visual Basic .NET
• Fully searchable eBook

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Design patterns provide elegant, reusable solutions to commonly recurring problems in software design. They're invaluable -- but until now, they've been off-limits to most VB developers, because most design patterns have focused on either C++ or Java. In Visual Basic Design Patterns, James W. Cooper provides the definitive guide to design patterns for both Visual Basic 6 and Microsoft's new VB.NET. Using Cooper's patterns, VB developers can build software that is more robust, more scalable, and delivers far better performance in even the most challenging enterprise environments. Cooper begins with a gentle introduction to the idea and goals of patterns, showing how they can be used to improve both VB6 and VB.NET software. He organizes the book's patterns into three categories: Creational, Structural and Behavioral. For each pattern, the book offers a brief description followed by simple example programs in both VB6 and VB.NET, supported by both screen shots and simple UML diagrams. All code for both VB6 and VB.NET is provided on the accompanying CD-ROM.

.NET is the most exciting Microsoft release for many years. As companies turn their attention to the .NET Framework, developers need to transfer their skills as quickly as possible. This book will make it easy to transfer your skills from Visual Basic 6 to C#, the language of choice of the .NET Framework.

Building on the familiar territory of VB6, this book will teach you C# and how to use it to program the .NET Framework. Packed with real-world, usable code, this book is full of practical examples. 100% relevant to your everyday programming tasks, it shows you what you really need to know to build powerful desktop applications.

With Visual C# .NET: A Guide for VB6 Developers you will learn to:

- Build powerful, effective Windows applications with C#

- Exploit Visual Studio .NET's time-saving features

- Use the power of the .NET Framework in your applications

- Benefit from code reuse through object orientation and class libraries

- Access and manipulate data sources through ADO.NET

- Build maintainable, scalable applications quickly

- Use familiar ActiveX controls in .NET applications

- Create new user controls in C#, which can be used in any .NET application

- Integrate existing Visual Basic code with C# .NET programs

Programmers: protect and defend your Web apps against attack!

You may know ASP.NET, but if you don't understand how to secure your applications, you need this book. This vital guide explores the often-overlooked topic of teaching programmers how to design ASP.NET Web applications so as to prevent online thefts and security breaches.

You'll start with a thorough look at ASP.NET 3.5 basics and see happens when you don't implement security, including some amazing examples. The book then delves into the development of a Web application, walking you through the vulnerable points at every phase. Learn to factor security in from the ground up, discover a wealth of tips and industry best practices, and explore code libraries and more resources provided by Microsoft and others.

• Shows you step by step how to implement the very latest security techniques
• Reveals the secrets of secret-keeping—encryption, hashing, and not leaking information to begin with
• Delves into authentication, authorizing, and securing sessions
• Explains how to secure Web servers and Web services, including WCF and ASMX
• Walks you through threat modeling, so you can anticipate problems
• Offers best practices, techniques, and industry trends you can put to use right away

Defend and secure your ASP.NET 3.5 framework Web sites with this must-have guide.

Whether you are using Windows Forms to build rich-client business applications, or the ASP.NET 2.0 framework to build powerful web applications or web services, the use of well-designed graphics will greatly enhance their usability, impact, and visual appeal. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the use of graphics in .NET applications and aims to provide you with all the information you need to build effective custom controls.

The opening section of the book investigates the .NET Framework classes that implement graphics. It covers all of the classes, methods, and techniques needed to create, manipulate, and display precise graphics in a form, a page being sent to a printer, or an image.

On this foundation, the second section describes how to design and build effective custom controls for use in a business environment. Topics covered include building composite controls, implementing keyboard navigation, and enhancing design-time support.

The final section of the book explores the use of GDI+ and ASP.NET to build custom controls that can provide reusable, GUI components for web projects, and to deliver customized graphics over the Internet.

Calling all Visual Basic .NET programmers and web developers! This highly anticipated book provides thorough instruction for using ADO.NET, supported with numerous relevant code examples and extensive technical information. So whether you’re developing web applications using ASP.NET, Windows Forms applications, or XML Web Services, you’ll become adept at maximizing .NET's data access technology.

Topics include: ADO.NET data architecture; data readers, adapters, and DataSets; safer development with XML Schemas; data relationships; and ADO.NETs built-in support and performance optimization. With such valuable content, you’ll come to master a solution-oriented approach to ADO.NET.

Covers COM interoperability in detail, and broadens the focus to examine a range of issues that must be handled in order for VB6 and COM code to run on .NET. Aimed at experienced Visual Basic developers who need to make COM and VB6 code interoperate with the new .NET platform. Softcover.

The .NET framework is the first development platform designed from the ground up with the Internet in mind. In order to incorporate VB developers within this framework, Microsoft have introduced a number of new features to VB.NET, not least a move to full object-oriented programming and greatly enhanced web design facilities.

This book will give the experienced programmer insight into these new and enhanced features, so as to allow them to begin designing and writing real-world applications, which fully utilize the exciting power of VB.NET.