This book is divided into six chapters. Each chapter tackles a particular category of enhancements in the VB 2005 language and the .NET 2.0 Framework:
- Chapter 1, Visual Studio
Visual Studio sports a host of embellishments, including enhanced IntelliSense and a new code snippets feature that puts useful examples at your fingertips. But the star of the show is undoubtedly the return of the long-missed edit-and-continue debugging engine.
- Chapter 2, The Visual Basic Language
The VB 2005 language has some new keywords, some of which duplicate features found in C# (e.g., operator overloading), and others that leverage completely new .NET Framework features (e.g., generics). Learn about them all in this chapter.
- Chapter 3, Windows Applications
The Windows Forms toolkit hasn't changed much, but a handful of entirely new controls provide modern menus and toolbars, masked text editing, web page display, and, finally, a decent data grid.
- Chapter 4, Web Applications
ASP.NET boasts the most improvements of any part of the .NET Framework. In this chapter, you'll get an overview of many new features, including codeless data-binding, site navigation, and new solutions for personalization, all of which aim to dramatically reduce the amount of code you need to write.
- Chapter 5, Files, Databases, and XML
In this chapter, you'll see what's new when dealing with data. This includes streamlined file access classes, a few new ADO.NET frills, and a better way to work with XML.
- Chapter 6, .NET 2.0 Platform Services
The last chapter wraps up with a slew of miscellaneous topics that demonstrate new .NET Framework features. These features include support for FTP, access to the Windows user security system, and a new way to deploy applications with the ClickOnce technology.
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