Introduction

Why, you might ask, did I decide to write an entire book about Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and enterprise development? After all, enterprise development usually conjures up pictures of industrial strength computer systems, something Visual Basic has not traditionally been associated with. First of all, Visual Basic .NET is more than just an evolutionary change to the Visual Basic platform. It is now truly an enterprise-class development platform that frees the developer of many of the constraints of previous implementations. For seasoned Visual Basic developers, this platform offers so many new ways of doing things that design decisions are often trial-and-error-based. Even when design decisions are based on the developer’s past experience, ...

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