Applied Microsoft® .NET Framework Programming in Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET 1st Edition

The Microsoft® .NET Framework provides powerful technologies such as ASP.NET Web Forms, XML Web services and Windows® Forms to simplify developing applications and components that work seamlessly on the Internet. This book shows how to make the most of the .NET Framework's common language runtime (CLR). Written by two highly respected developer/writers and intended for anyone who understands OOP concepts such as data abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphіsm, this book clearly explains the extensible type system of the CLR, examines how the CLR manages the behavior of types, and explores how an application manipulates types. While focusing on Visual Basic® .NET, its in-depth explanations and concepts apply equally to all programming languages that the target .NET Framework.

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