In this reference, 193 working programs and multimedia instruction by corporate trainers and authors provide instruction for Visual Basic.NET for new and experienced developers. Some of the topics include control structures, procedures and arrays, classes/data abstraction, ASP.NET, VisualStudio .NET IDE, GUI, event handling, Windows forms, multimedia/graphics/GDI+, multi-tier client-server, exception handling, database/ADO/SQL, object-oriented programming, SML/SHTML/XSLT, multithreading, COM integration, wireless development, and web forms, controls, and services. The included CD-ROMs contain a multimedia cyber classroom, as well as extra chapters, examples and source code. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)