Week 2. In Review

Week 2 covered many very cool topics. You learned about data access, I/O, and XML. You also learned how to write your first component in .NET, and how technologies such as ADO.NET and XML Web services can dramatically improve the way you write your applications.

On Day 8, you learned about the fundamentals of the Visual Basic .NET and C# languages. You learned about variables, data types, decision structures, and looping techniques. After going through the code on Day 8, you probably realized that Visual Basic .NET and C# aren't so different after all.

Day 9 introduced you to namespaces in .NET, and how they make up the framework class library. You learned that each namespace can have child namespaces, and that the classes ...

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