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General Meeting

Location: Auditorium, Library 2nd Floor
Date: Monday, November 12, 2001
Time: 7:00 to 10:00 pm
Topic: Getting Ready for VB.NET
Rob Windsor, G6 Consulting
http://www.g6consulting.com

As a VB6 developer you may have been asking yourself "What do I need to know to get ready for VB.NET?" Because the .NET Framework represents such a large change in architecture and VB.NET represents such a large change in language it is hard to know where to start. This goal of this session is to point out the major areas you need to focus on, discover what's new, and identify what issues you may be faced with.

During this session we will explore as many of the following topics as time allows:

  • The .NET Framework
  • Assemblies
  • Object-Oriented Programming and COM
  • Various Language Changes Including Error Handling
  • The Upgrade Wizard
  • Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Web Services and ASP.NET
Files: PowerPoint slides and sample code from Rob's talk (1,415 Kb)
Links: The .NET Show
Visual Basic .NET Upgrade Guide
.NET Interop: Using Wrappers to Interact with COM
Moving to VB.NET, Dan Appleman, APress
Beginning Visual Basic .NET, Richard Blair, WROX
Professional VB.NET, Rockford Lhotka, WROX


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