Chapter 1: What Is Microsoft .NET?

Chapter 2: Introducing Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.

Chapter 3: Variables and Type.

Chapter 4: Object Syntax Introduction.

Chapter 5: Inheritance and Interfaces.

Chapter 6: The Common Language Runtime.

Chapter 7: Applying Objects and Components.

Chapter 8: Generics.

Chapter 9: Namespaces.

Chapter 10: Exception Handling and Debugging.

Chapter 11: Data Access with ADO.NET 2.0.

Chapter 12: Using XML in Visual Basic 2005.

Chapter 13: Security in the .NET Framework 2.0.

Chapter 14: Windows Forms.

Chapter 15: Windows Forms Advanced Features.

Chapter 16: Building Web Applications.

Chapter 17: ASP.NET 2.0 Advanced Features.

Chapter 18: Assemblies.

Chapter 19: Deployment.

Chapter 20: Working with Classic COM and Interfaces.

Chapter 21: Enterprise Services.

Chapter 22: Threading.

Chapter 23: XML Web Services.

Chapter 24: Remoting.

Chapter 25: Windows Services.

Chapter 26: Network Programming.

Chapter 27: Visual Basic and the Internet.

Appendix A: The Visual Basic Compiler.

Appendix B: Visual Basic Resources.

Index.