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| Foreword | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| An Important Note Regarding Code in This Book | |
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| Strategies | |
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| Where Should You Begin? | |
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| The Importance of Context (Keeping Things in Perspective) | |
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| .NET-Is It Real or Is It Marketing? | |
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| Facing VB .NET without Fear or Panic | |
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| Oh My God, They Broke VB! | |
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| Everything You Know Is Now Obsolete | |
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| The Business of Software Development | |
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| Adoption Strategies | |
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| Time Frame | |
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| Porting Code | |
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| Deployment Considerations | |
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| What about C#? | |
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| Visual Studio 2002 or 2003? | |
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| What about Alternatives to .NET from Sources Other Than Microsoft? | |
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| Moving On | |
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| Concepts | |
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| .NET in Context | |
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| The Virtual Machine | |
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| COM Is Dead. Long Live COM? | |
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| The Common Language Runtime | |
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| Recap: Why .NET? | |
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| Inheritance | |
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| The Mantra of Code Reuse | |
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| Inheritance in .NET | |
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| A Closer Look at Inheritance in VB .NET | |
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| Recap | |
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| Memory Management in VB .NET | |
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| Value Objects and Reference Objects | |
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| Revisiting Garbage Collection | |
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| Off the Deep End-Resurrection Exists | |
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| Recap | |
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| VB .NET Multithreading | |
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| A Quick Introduction to Multithreading | |
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| The Benefits of Multithreading | |
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| Taking a Dip in a Thread Pool | |
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| Recap | |
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| Code | |
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| Data Types and Operators | |
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| The Numeric Types | |
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| Non-Numeric Data Types | |
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| Declarations | |
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| Conversions and Type Checking | |
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| Operators | |
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| Recap | |
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| Language Syntax | |
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| Function Calls and Parameters | |
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| Rational Calling Mechanism | |
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| Scoping Rules | |
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| Error Handling | |
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| Other Language Changes | |
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| Commands That Have Vanished | |
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| The Microsoft.VisualBasic and Compatibility Namespaces | |
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| Recap | |
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| Objects In-Depth | |
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| The Parts of a .NET Application | |
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| Scoping in VB .NET | |
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| More about Classes | |
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| Methods and Properties | |
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| Events and Delegates | |
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| Recap | |
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| Reflection and Attributes | |
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| On Compilers and Interpreters | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Binding | |
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| A Late Bound Surprise | |
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| Dynamic Loading | |
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| Recap | |
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| Interlude | |
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| The Wonderful World of .NET | |
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| .NET Namespaces--The Grand Tour | |
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| The Most Important Things to Keep in Mind When Dealing with the .NET Namespaces | |
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| Let the Tour Begin | |
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| If It's Tuesday, It Must Be System | |
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| Collections | |
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| Drawing | |
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| Printing | |
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| Serialization and Data Management | |
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| Resources and Localization | |
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| Asynchronous Programming | |
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| Recap | |
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| Windows Applications | |
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| A Whole New Forms Package | |
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| Patterns and System.Windows.Forms | |
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| Navigating the System.Windows.Forms Namespace | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Recap | |
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| Internet Applications and Services | |
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| What Is Microsoft .NET? | |
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| Programming the Internet | |
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| The .NET Way of Designing Applications | |
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| Remoting-the Other Distributed Technology | |
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| A Quick Aside with Winsock | |
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| A Guest Commentary | |
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| Recap | |
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| COM Interop and Accessing the Win32 API | |
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| COM Interop | |
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| Calling COM Objects from .NET | |
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| Accessing .NET Objects from COM | |
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| Accessing the Win32 API | |
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| Recap | |
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| Living with .NET | |
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| Versioning and .NET | |
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| Security | |
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| Bits and Pieces | |
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| Recap | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Index | |