Book Chapters:
Chapter 1
An introduction to ASP.NET web programming

Chapter 1 gives you the background you need to start writing ASP.NET 2.0 web applications of your own. So you’ll find out how web applications work, what software you need to develop them, and how the HTML code for a web form is coordinated with the Visual Basic code that makes the web form work the way you want it to.
Chapter 2
How to develop a one-page web application
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Book Abstract:
.NET Coding Guidelines is a 100+ page ebook (PDF) on naming conventions, best coding practices and patterns written by the industry expert Steven Sartain and delivered to you for Free by SubMain.

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The document covers:

* Naming Guidelines
* Class Member Usage Guidelines
* Guidelines for Exposing Functionality to COM
* Error Raising & Handling Guidelines
* Array Usage Guidelines
* Operator Overloading Usage Guidelines
* Guidelines for Casting Types
* Common Design Patterns
* Callback Function Usage
* Time-Out Usage
* Security in Class Libraries
* Threading Design Guidelines
* Formatting Standards
* Commenting Code
* Code Reviews
* Additional Notes for VB .NET Developers

Book Abstract:

Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you’ll encounter.

They’ll step you through a quick primer on .NET Framework programming, offering guidance for a productive transition. If you already work with .NET, you’ll jump directly into what’s new, learning how to extend your existing skills.
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VISUAL BASIC is a high level programming language which was evolved from the earlier DOS version called BASIC. BASIC means Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It is a very easy programming language to learn. The codes look a lot like English Language. Different software companies produced different version of BASIC, such as Microsoft QBASIC, QUICKBASIC, GWBASIC ,IBM BASICA and so on. However, it seems people only use Microsoft Visual Basic today, as it is a well developed programming language and supporting resources are available everywhere. Now, there are many versions of VB exist in the market, the most popular one and still widely used by many VB programmers is none other than Visual Basic 6. We also have VB.net, VB2005 and the latest VB2008, which is a fully object oriented programming (OOP) language. It is more powerful than VB6 but looks more complicated to master.
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Visual Basic Essentials is an online book designed to aid both novices and experienced programmers in learning Visual Basic. Using theory, code examples and screenshots, this book is intended to provide everything necessary to begin developing Windows applications in Visual Basic.
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