What This Book Covers

We will cover each of these areas as we go through this book, but we won't be covering them one at a time in isolation. Instead, we will be combining various topics (such as Windows development and event handling) so that you can see all of the changes in a useful and practical context. The breakdown of chapters in this book is as follows:

  • Chapter 1, “Introducing Visual Basic .NET 2003,” covers installing Visual Studio .NET and includes a detailed walkthrough of the new IDE.

  • Chapter 2, “Visual Basic .NET Language Changes,” covers the changes in language syntax and behavior from VB6, new language features, changes from VB6's data types, and data type conversion.

  • Chapter 3, “Building Windows Applications,” is a meaty one. Chapter ...

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