Chapter 2. Visual Basic .NET for the Enterprise

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET is a language that was designed from the start to specifically address the needs of the next-generation applications for the Microsoft Windows platform. As a result, it has introduced many language and platform enhancements that are of special interest to enterprise developers. These changes have made for a significant departure from prior releases of Visual Basic, but they are intended to simplify the development process as well as significantly increase your development productivity.

This chapter will not address every feature of the Visual Basic .NET language. I will instead focus on the features and language elements that are important to enterprise application development. ...

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