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Let's talk about exactly what we are going to cover in this course on Visual Basic .NET. I'm going to start out with a short video on welcome to .NET and point out some of the differences, the major differences that you are going to notice in .NET, some of the really cool things. From there I'm going to go to some general information for Visual Basic 6 users. Now the majority of people that are using .NET are coming from a Visual Basic 6 or previous background. That doesn't mean you are not welcome here, you can't do this if you don't have Visual Basic 6 experience. But the fact of the matter is, that that is where most of the folks are coming from and I want to address those folks. We will then get into the .NET Framework. Now in the .NET Framework, we are going to look at such things as the general description; what .NET is? How to get it? How to install it? How to read the documentation on it, some common language run time issues. What that is? What it does? Intermediate language code, the tools that we have to use. Some choices about which language in the platform to use, C-sharp .NET, that a raging debate. We'll talk about name spaces, what they are? After we deal with the Framework, we then look at VB .NET under the hood. And we'll talk about how DLL's are gone, we don't have any more DLL problems here, not in a true .NET environment anyway. If you can read between the lines there, you could pick a little bit of a disclaimer. We'll then take a look at the new visual studio .NET integrated development environment. And we'll play with some of the features on this thing, and this thing has really gotten cool. We are going to look at some of the graphical layout issues, the new file names and extensions that are used. And how they are manipulated. The different windows that we have, some of the really cool features in that thing like numbering our lines, code regions, I'm also going to help you with installing this thing. This thing is somewhat chunky, it takes up a little bit of real-estate on your hard disk. And I'm going to talk about some installation issues with it. Then we look at some basics about building projects, and just a few of the bells and whistles built into this thing that you'll really like as a developer. From there we are going to types. What is a type? What's the big deal about type safe and we hear all that information in marketing that we read and we'll deal with types there. Data types, we'll talk about exactly what a data type is. Different VB .NET data types and different issues surrounding data types in VB .NET. From there we'll go look at classes, these are the building blocks for our objects and we'll talk about what classes are. We'll talk about issues like encapsulation, abstraction. We'll look at how to create a class and something new to .NET are constructors inside those classes. And then we'll look at actually how to implement our class. Then we are going to talk about inheritance or reusing classes. And this is something new to VB people. I'm going to talk about inheritance, interfaces, implementation of those interfaces, fundamentals of our class design to make them reusable, and how to enforce them in abstraction encapsulation and so forth. So we'll play with those. Next step is shared instances, these things are really weird for depending on where you are coming from. we'll talk about what one is, and we'll create one and play with it, and talk about how to use it, when we use it. Properties have changed somewhat in VB .NET, we'll talk about those, when we get down around to a section 13 or so. Methods - we'll talk about what a method is. How to create one, the difference types of methods and how to limit those and how this works in with abstraction and encapsulation and so forth. And then from there we'll go take a look at functions. And exactly what a function is. How to build one and some examples of them. Next step, we'll talk about overloading and here we'll get into more of the object oriented aspects of VB. Then we are going to get into overriding, what that means, how to do it, shadowing same thing. Then we'll take a look at events: events changed quite a bit in VB .NET, pretty exciting stuff. Then we'll talk about delegates, these are real powerful constructs that we can use. Then we'll talk about modules, how they changed from VB6 and how we use them. Structures, very similar to classes, different data type, we'll talk about that. Garbage collection. How memory is handled, how objects are cleaned up. Threads: this is one of the big marketing hypes around VB .NET and that is that we can now control separate threads in Visual Basic. We'll talk briefly about .NET in XML, the marriage that has taken place; web services - this is one of the coolest areas in .NET. And we'll talk about that a little bit. We'll take a look at debugging, how to debug this thing. And then we'll talk about some upgrade issues. Exactly what you need to be concerned with in upgrading .NET. Then we'll wrap it up with some miscellaneous remarks. So as you can tell we are going to cover a lot. And I would really want to stress, we are going to talk about these things in an overview type of atmosphere. I'm going to show you a lot of examples and so, we actually get started up next and we are going to take a general look at the video entitled welcome to .NET. See you there.