1. Opening and Running A VB.NET Program

• Visual Studio .NET
• The Visual Studio .NET IDE
• Creating a Simple Application
• Windows in the Visual Studio .NET IDE
• Creating a HelloUser Project – Continued
• The Toolbox
• Adding Controls to the HelloUser Application
• Modified Hungarian Notation
• The Code Editor
• Adding Code to the HelloUser Project
• Using the Help System

2. Managing Windows Forms

• Form Properties
• Introduction to Controls
• Basic Controls
• Tab Order
• Labels as Accelerators
• Managing Forms
• Menu Control

3. Variables and Procedures

• Visual Basic Variable Data Types
• Structures
• Creating Variables
• Scope of Variables
• Public Variables
• Arrays
• Constants
• Static Variables
• Variable Shadowing

4. Controlling Program Execution

• Comparison and Relational Operators
• Conditional Structures

5. Collections

• The Controls Collection

6. Using Loops and Timers

• The Do...Loop
• For...Next
• For Each...Next
• With...End With
• Doevents
• The Timer Control

7. Debugging

• Types of Errors
• Debugging Applications

8. Using .NET Classes

• Introduction
• Classes, Assemblies, and Namespaces
• Referencing Members of a Namespace
• Classes Have Members
• VB.NET Functions versus System Class Members
• Making Calculations Using the System.Math Class
• Generating Random Numbers Using the System.Random Class
• Further Investigation

9. Working with Modules and Procedures

• Modules
• Procedures
• Arguments
• Calling Procedures

10. Creating .NET Classes

• Object-Oriented Programming Overview
• Good Uses for Classes
• Understanding .NET Components
• So what is a .NET Component?
• Creating A Class
• Creating Properties
• Creating a Method
• Overloading a Method
• The Constructor
• Events

11. Trapping errors

• What is maintainable code?
• What is an 'Exception'?
• Try/Catch Block
• Why should we catch exceptions?
• Exception classes in .NET Framework
• Handling specific Exception types
• Program Flow
• Some commonly used .NET Exception classes

12. Data Access

• Introduction to ADO.NET
• Connecting to a Database
• Using Data Commands
• Using DataReaders
• DataAdapters
• DataSets
• Editing and Updating Data
• Data Binding
• DataView

13. Deploying VB.NET Applications

• Introduction
• Windows Installer
• Assemblies
• Deployment Strategy
• Copying Projects
• Deployment Projects

14. Introduction to ASP.NET

• What is ASP.NET?
• Introduction To Web Forms
• Components of Web Forms
• Web Forms File Structure
• What Web Forms Pages Help You Accomplish

15. Introduction to Web Services

• What Is A Web Service
• The basics
• Standards support
• Creating a Web Service
• Building the Functions
• Test It
• UDDI
• So when would I use a web service?
• Why use anything else?
• Using a Web Service