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
• Table of Contents
• Index
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio® .NET 2003 in 21 Days
By
Jason Beres
Publisher
: Sams Publishing
Pub Date
: January 14, 2003
ISBN
: 0-672-32421-0
Pages
: 696
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days will help developers that are new to application development and experienced developers understand how to use the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to rapidly develop any type of computer application. The Visual Studio .NET development environment is the most comprehensive developer tool ever created, putting that together with the .NET Frameworks' Class Libraries, the developer has everything he or she needs to get up-to-speed on Microsoft's latest revolution in application development. This book will guide the developer through using the VS .NET IDE, the Visual Basic .NET and C# language, and the supporting tools available from Microsoft to create Windows and Web-based applications. The market is full of books that pretty much say the same thing, which is already available in the help files, the author of this book has written and deployed over a dozen successful applications using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. All of his expertise and experience is used to give you the most comprehensive title on using Visual Studio .NET.