Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days - Teach Yourself

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.

Contents

• Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework.
• Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET.
• Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications.
• Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications.
• Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications.
• Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications.
• Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing.
• Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#.
• Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET.
• Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET.
• Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools.
• Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET.
• Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET.
• Day 14. Components and .NET.
• Day 15. Writing International Applications.
• Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET.
• Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET.
• Day 18. Using Crystal Reports.
• Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test.
• Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe.
• Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio.