What's Next

This chapter concludes Part IV of this book. The last several chapters were devoted to working with forms and controls. This basically covered a lot of material (as you already know). You should now be at point where you can design and develop your own user interface using the classes provided in the System.Windows.Forms assembly. This includes forms, controls, menus, customized drawing using the graphics capabilities, printing support, and of course help.

Now you are going to move onto Part V, which involves manipulating data in Visual Basic .NET. You will be using more Microsoft .NET Framework classes and explaining through examples how you can access and manipulate data using a SQL database as well as using XML. After you get through ...

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