Pro VB 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Philosophy of .NET See next page for excerpt
Chapter 2: Building Visual Basic 2008 Applications
Chapter 3: VB 2008 Programming Constructs, Part I
Chapter 4: VB 2008 Programming Constructs, Part II
Chapter 5: Designing Encapsulated Class Types
Chapter 6: Understanding Inheritance and Polymorphism
Chapter 7: Understanding Structured Exception Handling
Chapter 8: Understanding Object Lifetime
Chapter 9: Working with Interface Types
Chapter 10: Collections, Generics, and Nullable Data Types
Chapter 11: Delegates, Events, and Lambdas
Chapter 12: Operator Overloading and Custom Conversion Routines
Chapter 13: VB 2008–Specific Language Features
Chapter 14: An Introduction to LINQ
Chapter 15: Introducing .NET Assemblies
Chapter 16: Type Reflection, Late Binding, and Attribute-Based Programming
Chapter 17: Processes, AppDomains, and Object Contexts
Chapter 18: Building Multithreaded Applications
Chapter 19: .NET Interoperability Assemblies
Chapter 20: File and Directory Manipulation
Chapter 21: Introducing Object Serialization
Chapter 22: ADO.NET Part I: The Connected Layer
Chapter 23: ADO.NET Part II: The Disconnected Layer
Chapter 24: Programming with the LINQ APIs
Chapter 25: Introducing Windows Communication Foundation
Chapter 26: Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation
Chapter 27: Introducing Windows Forms
Chapter 28: Rendering Graphical Data with GDI+
Chapter 29: Programming with Windows Forms Controls
Chapter 30: Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML
Chapter 31: Programming with WPF Controls
Chapter 32: WPF 2D Graphical Rendering, Resources, and Themes
Chapter 33: Building ASP.NET Web Pages
Chapter 34: ASP.NET Web Controls, Themes, and Master Pages
Chapter 35: ASP.NET State Management Techniques