Tony Martin & Dominic Selly 
Visual Basic .NET at Work 
Building 10 Enterprise Projects

Gain the tools to create 10 reusable enterprise projectsutilizing the new features of VB.NETGoing beyond the standard reference books, Tony Martin takesreaders step-by-step through the process of creating ten reusableenterprise applications with the next version of Microsoft’sleading programming language-Visual Basic.NET. Readers will startby building a standard application template, which will form thebasis of all the projects. Martin explains how to combine VB.NETwith other key technologies, such as Web Services, ASP.NET, XML, Web Forms, and the Microsoft Mobile Framework, to solve theimportant issues corporate Visual Basic programmers face today.Microsoft Technologies CD-ROM includes complete source code for the projects in the bookand the third-party tools required to build the projects..NET Platform: The next big overhaul to Microsoft’stechnologies that will bring enterprise distributed computing tothe next level by fully integrating the Internet into thedevelopment platform. This will allow interaction between anymachine, on any platform, and on any device.Visual Basic.NET: The update to this popular visualprogramming language will offer greater Web functionality, moresophisticated object-oriented language features, links to Microsoft’s new common runtime, and a new interface.ASP.NET: A programming framework (formerly known as Active Server Pages) for building powerful Web-based enterpriseapplications; can be programmed using VB.NET or C#.C#: Microsoft’s new truly object-oriented programminglanguage that builds on the strengths of C++ and the ease of Visual Basic; promises to give Sun’s Java a run for its money.

Table of Content

Getting Started.Project 1: A Win Forms Library.Project 2: Bug Tracking with ADO.NET.Project 3: Bug Reporting with Web Services.Project 4: Performance Testing with Remoting.Project 5: Deployment Packages.Project 6: Web Portal with ASP.NET.Project 7: Schema Generator with XML.Project 8: User Authentication Login Screen.Project 9: Employee Information System Using the Mobile Toolkit.Project 10: Employee Intranet with .NET.Appendix: What’s on the CD-ROM?Index.

About the author

TONY MARTIN is a principal software engineer at Best Software, Inc.He is responsible for software development processes andarchitecture, oversees and manages software development projects, and writes various types of code in Visual Basic and C++.DOMINIC SELLY is a senior software engineer in the IT department at Capella University, a 100 percent online college. He spends histime acting as architect and technical lead on Capella’s ASP.Netapplication development efforts. He also created and conducts the ASP.Net Boot Camp (www.ASPDOTNETBoot Camp.com).