How This Book Is Structured
This book is most effective when read over the course of three weeks. During each week, you will read seven chapters that present concepts related to Visual Studio .NET. Each day you will learn something new and interesting about using Visual Studio .NET. Though there are many topics covered, each day is designed to help you get up to speed quickly using the most important aspects of Visual Studio .NET. Along the way you will learn VB.NET and C#, and you will be doing hands-on exercises designed to give you real world implementations of the topics covered.
Conventions
NoteA Note presents interesting, sometimes technical, pieces of information related to the surrounding discussion.

The VB.NET icon flags VB.NET code.

The C# icon flags code written in C#.Text that you type and text that should appear on your screen is presented in bold monospace type: It will look like this.This font mimics the way text looks on your screen. Placeholders for variables and expressions appear in monospace italic.The end of each lesson offers commonly asked questions about that day's subject matter with answers from the authors, a chapter-ending quiz to test your knowledge of the material, and two exercises that you can try on your own.You can email me anytime with any issues about the book or code you're running into trouble with at