VB.NET 2005 Free Training: Differences between VB.NET 1.0 and VB.NET 2.0: VB.NET 2005 comes with a number of enhancements. The IntelliSense Code snippets, the Windows Forms designer updates, IntelliSense filtering, debugger data tips, exception Assistant etc make the software a pleasure to work with. The language has been spruced up with generics, unsigned types, Operator overloading etc.

VB.NET 2005 Free Training : Visual Studio.NET Namespaces The .NET Framework class library has thousands of classes which are needed for developing and deploying solutions. In order to organize all those classes for ease of use .NET Framework uses namespaces. This Gives the Classes their own space and prevents conflicts between the various names in these classes. For instance if two classes contain a method Paint(), then to avoid conflicts in names we can place these classes in two different namespaces. Thus namespaces allow classes to be grouped in a consistent, hierarchical manner.

VB.NET 2005 Free Training : Visual Studio.NET Namespaces - The .NET Framework class library has thousands of classes which are needed for developing and deploying solutions. In order to organize all those classes for ease of use .NET Framework uses namespaces. This Gives the Classes their own space and prevents conflicts between the various names in these classes. For instance if two classes contain a method Paint(), then to avoid conflicts in names we can place these classes in two different namespaces. Thus namespaces allow classes to be grouped in a consistent, hierarchical manner.

VB.NET 2005 Free Training: Setting and Adding Properties to a Windows Form - In this tutorial we wil leran about Setting and Adding Properties to a Windows Form, Using the Visual Designer to set Windows Form Properties, Setting Windows Forms Properties programatically and Using Visual Inheritance along with the sample project and screen shots.

VB.NET 2005 Free Training: Building graphical interface elements - Building graphical interface elements by using the System.Drawing namespace, In this tutorial we will learn about Graphics Object, The Windows Forms Coordinate System, Drawing Text on a Form, Drawing Shapes and Working with images.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Dialog Boxes in Visual Basic .NET 2005 - Most Windows applications request for user input. Dialog boxes are one means of requesting users for specific kinds of inputs. Therefore, VB.NET allows its designers to create a number of different types of dialog boxes. Standard Dialog boxes are included in classes that fall within the purview of the CommonDialog. FileDialog, ColorDialog, FontDialog, PageSetupDialog, PrintDialog.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Validation - In this tutorial you will learn about User Input Validation, Required Field Validators, Comparison Validators, Range Validators, Regular Expression Validator, Custom Validators, ErrorProvider, Enabling Controls Based On Input and Other Properties of Validation.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Exceptions - In this tutorial you will learn about Exceptions, Common Exceptions, Handling Exceptions - Try Block, Catch Block, Throw Statement, Finally Block, Salient points about error handling Custom Exceptions - Managing Unhandled Exception

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Creating and Managing Components Section 1 - In this tutorial you will learn about Components, Best practices in using Components, Creating Components by extending the UserControl Class, Testing the Control, Creating and implementing Events, Extending a control through Visual Inheritance and Inheriting from a UserControl.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Creating and Managing .NET Assemblies Single-file and multi-file assemblies, Combining modules written in different languages, Creating a multi-file assembly, End Namespace, Static and dynamic assemblies, Private and shared assemblies, Sharing an assembly, Satellite and Resource-only assemblies, Compiling Satellite Assemblies, Compiling Satellite Assemblies With Strong Names, Obtaining the Public Key, Delay Signing an Assembly, Re-signing an Assembly, Installing a Satellite Assembly in the Global Assembly Cache, Resources in Applications, Creating and Localizing Resources and Packaging and Deploying Resources.