About the Authors.

Introduction.

Part One: The .NET Experience.

Chapter 1: Nothing but .NET.

Chapter 2: Building Visual Basic .NET Windows Applications.

Chapter 3: Examining Visual Basic .NET.

Chapter 4: Debugging and Exception Handling.

Part Two: Middle-Tier Development in .NET.

Chapter 5: Advanced .NET Windows Applications.

Chapter 6: Building Class Libraries in .NET.

Chapter 7: Extending Visual Basic .NET Classes.

Chapter 8: Implementation Inheritance.

Chapter 9: Interfaces and Polymorphism.

Chapter 10: Data Access in .NET.

Chapter 11: Memory Management and Performance Monitoring.

Chapter 12: Threading.

Part Three: Web Technologies in .NET.

Chapter 13: ASP.NET.

Chapter 14: Data Control and XML in Web Applications.

Chapter 15: XML Web Services.

Part Four: Distribution and Interoperability in .NET.

Chapter 16: Interoperability.

Chapter 17: Mobile Internet Toolkit.

Chapter 18: Localization and Globalization.

Chapter 19: Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET Migration.

Chapter 20: Distributing .NET Projects.

Appendix A: Installing .NET.

Appendix B: About the 60 Minutes Web Site.

Appendix C: Glossary.

Index.