[...]... Chapter 1: Software Development and Visual Basic NET Chapter 2: Visual Basic NET and the NET Framework 16 Chapter 1: Software Development and Visual Basic NET Overview Visual Basic NET is a radical departure from the previous versions of Visual Basic, the world's most popular programming language If you have had experience with Object−Oriented (OO) languages like Java or Delphi you will probably take to Visual. .. to the OO concepts that all Visual Basic programmers need to know This chapter introduces these software developments and OO concepts early on, to help you derive the most benefit from this book and from Visual Basic NET We begin by reviewing the evolution of software development over the past few decades Then we shall see how Visual Basic NEThereon referred to as Visual Basic has risen to meet the. .. class members These tables will give you an idea of what constructs are available to the class and may or may not correspond to an element further explained in the text However, in most of the cases the tables are abridged They especially do not list the members that are always inherited from the root Object Defer to the NET SDK for the full picture 15 Part I: Introduction to Visual Basic NET Chapter... Terms 611 The System.Diagnostics Namespace 611 Enabling Debugging 615 Run−time Configuration Files 616 Machine Configuration File . 617 Application Configuration File 617 Security Configuration File 618 Working with Configuration Files . 618 Working with the Debug Class 618 The Debug Write Methods... Microsoft or whether you would prefer they spent their time on more important issues I delved into the subject of shift operations and the shift operators in Visual Basic NET The problem you have here is that there are no shift operators in Visual Basic Only C# has them I decided to show them anywayonly I had to write the examples in C# Surprised? You should be The C# section is important for two reasons... Visual Basic NET and the NET Framework 6 41 Chapter 3: The Visual Basic NET Development Environment .6 41 Chapter 4: The Elements of Visual Basic NET .6 41 Chapter 6: Software Design, Conditional Structures, and Control Flow 6 41 Chapter 7: Methods 642 Chapter 8: Types, Structures, and Enumerations 642 Chapter 9: Classes .642 Chapter 10 : Interfaces... one book Otherwise, we would probably have been looking at around 2000 pages This book is my second on Visual Basic NET The first book, Visual Basic NET Developer's Headstart, is an introduction to Visual Basic NET It's designed as a quick read to place you on familiar footing with Visual Basic NET It's especially useful if you come from the world of Java and Delphi, and want to be sure Visual Basic NET... Sellers, about the discussions we had just had with the Microsoft NET protagonists We came to the conclusion that if Microsoft could pull off the NET Framework, it would change software developmentat least for the Windows operating systemsforever This book's publication is testimony to the achievement that is the NET Framework and, in particular, Visual Basic NET Visual Basic NET and the NET Framework... 19 90s, Java in 19 95 Much of what's new to Visual Basic, like true OO and free threading, has been part of the Delphi and Java arsenal for many years You will see that I talk not only to VB programmers (for the most part) but also to VJ and Delphi programmers What you now have in Visual Basic NET is the marvelous utility and simplicity of Visual Basic coupled with the incredible power of OO and Visual J++... . 510 Building Strings with StringBuilder 512 Capacity 513 Append . 513 AppendFormat 514 Insert 514 Remove 514 Replace . 515 Regular Expressions 515 The NET Framework Regex Metalanguage 517 File, Stream, and Text IO Operations . 519 Files and Directories . Chapter 8 12 Chapter 9 12 Chapter 10 13 Chapter 11 13 Chapter 12 13 Chapter 13 13 Chapter 14 14 Chapter 15 14 Chapter 16 14 Chapter 17 15 Conventions 15 Part I: Introduction to Visual Basic. Integer Types 11 2 Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET 11 3 Point Types 11 3 Characters 11 4 Booleans 11 4 Literal Notation 11 5 Type Conversion 11 8 Working with Variables and Constants 12 0 Variable. Contents Visual Basic .NET The Complete Reference 1 Foreword 3 Acknowledgments 6 Introduction 8 Chapter 1 10 Chapter 2 10 Chapter 3 10 Chapter 4 11 Chapter 5 11 Chapter 6 12 Chapter 7 12