Chapter 1. Application Development
This chapter covers some of the general features and functionality found in Visual Basic .NET 9.0 and Visual Studio 2008. The recipes in this chapter cover the following:
Using the VB .NET command-line compiler to build console and Windows Forms applications (recipes 1-1 and 1-2)
Creating and using code modules and libraries (recipes 1-3 and 1-4)
Compiling and embedding a string resource file (recipe 1-5)
Compiling applications using MSBuild.exe (recipe 1-6)
Accessing command-line arguments from within your applications (recipe 1-7)
Using compiler directives and attributes to selectively include code at build time (recipe 1-8)
Manipulating the appearance of the console (recipe 1-9)
Accessing program elements built ...
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