This exciting new Second Edition of the Deitels' best-selling Visual Basic textbook carefully explains how to use Visual Basic .NET—a premier language in Microsoft's new .NET initiative—as a general-purpose programming language and how to program multi-tier, client/server, database-intensive, Internet- and Web-based .NET applications.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally-recognized corporate-training and content-creation organization specializing in Visual Basic® .NET, C#, Visual C++® .NET, Java™, C++, C, XML™, Python, Perl; Internet, Web, wireless, e-business and object technologies. The Deitels are the authors of several worldwide #1 programming-language textbooks, including Java How to Program, 4/e, C++ How to Program, 3/e and Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, 2/e.

In Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e, the Deitels and their colleague, Tem. R. Nieto, discuss topics you need to build complete .NET, Web-based applications, including:

* .NET Introduction/IDE/Debugger
* Control Structures/Procedures/Arrays
* Classes/Data Abstraction/Strings
* OOP/Inheritance/Polymorphism
* Methods/Properties/Events/Delegates
* Data Structures/Collections/Unicode®
* Database/ADO.NET/SQL
* Assemblies/Modules/Exceptions
* GUI/Forms/Controls/Visual Inheritance
* Web Services/ASP.NET/Web Forms
* XML/XSLT™/DOM™/DTD/Schema
* VoiceXML™/Regular Expressions
* Files/Streams/Multimedia/Graphics/GDI+
* Multithreading/Client-Server/Networking
* Session Tracking/Cookies/Accessibility
* HTML 4/XHTML™/COM Integration

Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e includes extensive pedagogic features:

* Hundreds of LIVE-CODE™ programs with screen captures that show exact outputs
* Extensive World Wide Web and Internet resources to encourage further research
* Hundreds of tips, recommended practices and cautions—all marked with icons

Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e is the centerpiece of a complete family of resources for teaching and learning Visual Basic .NET, including several Web sites (deitel and prenhall/deitel) with the book's source-code examples (which are also on the enclosed CD) and other information for faculty, students and professionals; an optional interactive CD (Visual Basic .NET Multimedia Cyber Classroom, 2/e) containing hyperlinks, solutions to half the book's exercises and audio walkthroughs of the book's code examples; and e-mail access to the authors at:
deitel@deitel.com