A companion book to Introduction to Visual Basic Using .NET, this book does a very good job of duplicating a minimum of information and expanding into new territory. The emphasis here is on system building rather than training. Instead of language fundamentals such as syntax and the Visual Studio IDE, this book provides the goods on the things you need to know to actually build a system such as Assemblies and Deployment, Remoting, and Interoperability.

The examples in the book are selected for their business value as much as to illustrate the technical points in the book. (The travel industry seems to be favored for most of them.) Like the companion book in the series, the code examples are clearly identified and are available on the authors' web site, Object Innovations.

About the Author

See Introduction to Visual Basic Using .NET for author information about Dr. Oberg and Dr. Wyatt.

Peter Thorsteinson breaks the mold for this textbook because his credentials are mainly from the business side of things. He also has a heavy background in Java and C++ rather than exclusively in Microsoft products.