Visual Basic® .NET by Example

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Chapter 1. Overview of the Environment

This chapter introduces Visual Basic .NET by presenting an overview of the development environment. The goal here is to allow you to become acquainted with the development environment before actually jumping into learning the Visual Basic language itself.

In this chapter, you will

Be presented with an overview of Microsoft .NET, Visual Studio .NET, and Visual Basic .NET
Take a tour of Visual Studio .NET

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