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Wrox - Professional VB.NET
Chapter 1 - What is Microsoft .NET?
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Topics include:
The DNA Programming Model
The Limitations of COM
Limitations of VB6 for DNA Application Development
Limitations of DNA Internet Development
The Need to Abstract the Operating System
The Solution – Microsoft .NET
The Structure of Microsoft .NET
The Common Language Runtime
How Microsoft .NET Attains Its Goals
The Role of COM

Apress - An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET
Chapter 1 - Overview of Object-Oriented Programming
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Topics include:
The History of OOP
Why Use OOP?
The Characteristics of OOP
The History of Visual Basic

O'Reilly - Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic.NET
Chapter 1 - Introduction
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Topics include:
Visual Basic .NET and Object-Oriented Programming
  • Abstraction
  • Encapsulation
  • Inheritance
  • Polymorphism
    The .NET Framework
  • The Common Language Runtime

    • Murach's Beginning Visual Basic.NET
    Chapter 1 - How to get started with Visual Basic .NET
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    Topics include:
    Introduction to the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET
    A tour of the Microsoft Development Environment
    How to build a project
    How to run a project