About The BookGet the expert guidance you need to succeed in .NET Framework development with Visual Basic® .NET! 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 polymorphism, 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 target the .NET Framework. Topics covered include:The .NET Framework architecture Building, packaging, deploying, and administering applications and their typesBuilding and deploying shared assembliesType fundamentalsPrimitive, reference, and value typesOperations common to all objects Type members and accessibilityConstants, fields, methods, properties, and eventsWorking with textEnumerated types and bit flagsArray typesInterfacesCustom attributesDelegatesError handling with exceptionsAutomatic memory managementAppDomains and reflection |