Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio® .NET 2003 in 21 Days

Week 2: At a Glance

Week 2 teaches you how to write applications in .NET. Starting with an introduction to the Visual Basic .NET and C# languages, you'll be given what you need to understand and use both syntaxes in your applications. You'll learn about the namespaces in the framework class library, and how to use them in your applications to take advantage of the services available to you in the .NET Framework. Most applications you write in today's business world are component driven, access data in a database, and use XML. So, during this week, you'll also learn everything you need to get up to speed on building components, accessing data with ADO.NET, and reading and parsing XML and using the built-in tools in Visual Studio .NET to write ...