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Designed as a beginner's tutorial to the latest version of Visual Basic, this informative guide discusses the most important features of the language and teaches how to use the .NET Framework. Written with clarity and readability in mind, it introduces important programming concepts and explains the process of building real-world applications, both desktop and web-based. With the most comprehensive coverage possible in a book for beginners, it includes such topics as VB language syntax, object-oriented programming, working with numbers and dates, error handling, input output, generics, annotations, database access, security, and application deployment.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Your First Taste of Visual Basic
Chapter 2: Language Fundamentals
Chapter 3: Statements
Chapter 4: Objects and Classes
Chapter 5: Core Classes
Chapter 6: Inheritance
Chapter 7: Structures
Chapter 8: Error Handling
Chapter 9: Numbers and Dates
Chapter 10: Interfaces and Abstract Classes
Chapter 11: Enumerations
Chapter 12: Generics
Chapter 13: Collections
Chapter 14: Input/Output
Chapter 15: Windows Presentation Foundation
Chapter 16: Polymorphism
Chapter 17: ADO.NET
Appendix A: Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop
Appendix B: SQL Server 2012 Express