Part 1 Introduction Visual Basic 2008 and the .Net Platform Chapter 1 The Philosophy of .Net Chapter 2 Building Visual Basic 2008 Applications Part 2 Core VB Programming Constructs Chapter 3 VB 2008 Programming Constructs, Part I Chapter 4 VB 2008 Programming Constructs, Part II Chapter 5 Designing Encapsulated Class Types Chapter 6 Understanding Inheritance and Polymorphism Chapter 7 Understanding Structured Exception Hnalding Chapter 8 Understanding Object Lifetime Part 3 Advanced VB Programming Consructs Chapter 9 Working with Interface Types Chapter 10 Collections, Generics, and Nullable Data Types Chapter 11 Delegates, Events, and Lambdas Chapter 12 Operator Overloading and Custom Conversion Routines Chapter 13 VB 2008-Specific Language Features Chapter 14 An Introduction to LINQ Part 4 Programming with .NET Assemblies Chapter 15 Introducing .NET Assemblies Chapter 16 Type Reflection, Late Binding, and Attribute-Based Programming Chapter 17 Processes, AppDomains, and Object Contexts Chapter 18 Building Multithreaded Applications Chapter 19 .NET Interoperability Assemblies Part 5 Introducing the .NET Base Class Libraries Chapter 20 File and Directory Manipulation Chapter 21 Introducing Object Serialization Chapter 22 ADO.NET Part I: The Connected Layer Chapter 23 ADO.
NET Part II: The Disconnected Layer Chapter 24 Programming with the LINQ APIs Chapter 25 Introducing Windows Communication Foundation Chapter 26 Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation Part 6 Desktop Applications with Windows Forms Chapter 27 Introducing Windows Forms Chapter 28 Rendering Graphical Data with GDI+ Chapter 29 Programming with Windows Forms Controls Part 7 Desktop Applications with WPF Chapter 30 Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML Chapter 31 Programming with WPF Controls Chapter 32 WPF 2D Graphical Rendering, Resources, and Themes Part 8 Building Web Applications with ASP.NET Chapter 33 Building ASP.NET Web Pages Chapter 34 ASP.NET Web Controls, Themes, and Master Pages Chapter 35 ASP.NET State Management Techniques Index.