This expert guide covers what you need to know to program with Visual Basic 2008, employ the latest Visual Studio 2008 tools, and operate efficiently within the .NET Framework. In an easy-to-follow style, the book moves from in-depth explanations to practical instruction to real-world examples. Explore basic coding in VB 2008 and learn to build interfaces without coding by using Visual Studio 2008's drag-and-drop visual tools. You'll get up to speed on LINQ and handle key tasks such as programming TreeView controls, and more. ...

ClickOnce, a new technology in Visual Studio 2005, lets you quickly and easily deploy your Windows apps via web servers, file servers, or even CDs. But while ClickOnce delivers web-style deployment of your application, that's only part of the story. Once you've installed an application using ClickOnce, it can automatically check for new updates to the application, which saves time in application maintenance and upgrades. And on the security front, a ClickOnce application runs within a secure sandbox and you configure it using the Code Access Security model. So, how can you take advantage of...

Visual Basic is the most popular programming language in existence. At the present time, it is estimated that there are over three million programmers using Visual Basic. It is also the most popular introductory programming language at most colleges and universities. This is going to become even more widespread with Visual Basic .NET. From the outset, this book is designed to teach an individual with no prior programming experience the art of object-oriented programming. The reader is carefully led through a thoughtful sequence of chapters that builds a solid foundation of programming...

Learn how to turn data into solutions with SQL Server 2000, Visual Basic .NET, and XML. Find out the fastest ways to transform data into potent business solutions with this definitive guide for developers. You'll get a fundamental grasp of SQL Server™ programming techniques for data access, data manipulation, and data definition with T-SQL, and you'll learn how to make the most of the language enhancements in Visual Basic® .NET, the programming advances in the Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET integrated development environment, and the state-of-the-art technologies of the .NET framework,...