Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic.NET in 21 Days provides readers with 21 structured lessons with step-by-step guidance to real-world tasks. Each chapter also contains exercises that reinforce the lessons learned in each chapter. Tips, Notes, and Cautions provide additional advice from the authors on how to get up-to-speed and programming quickly with Visual Basic.NET.

Table of Contents

Day 1. Welcome to Visual Basic .NET.
Day 2. Working with Visual Basic .NET.
Day 3. Introduction to Programming with Visual Basic .NET.
Day 4. Controlling Flow in Programs.
Day 5. Application Architecture in .NET.
Day 6. What to Do When Good Programs Go Bad, and Making Sure They Don't.
Day 7. Working with Objects.
Day 8. Introduction to the .NET Framework
Day 9. Building a User Interface with Windows Forms
Day 10. Building the User Interface with Web Forms.
Day 11. Introduction to Databases.
Day 12. Accessing Data with .NET.
Day 13. Using the Server Explorer.
Day 14. Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming.
Day 15. Creating Objects in Visual Basic .NET.
Day 16. Advanced Windows Forms.
Day 17. Using the .NET Framework.
Day 18. Finishing Touches.
Day 19. Deploying Your Application.
Day 20. Introduction to XML.
Day 21. Creating Web Services with Visual Basic .NET
Appendix A. Answers.
Index.