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.

Implementing Class Library Object in VB.NET 2005 Class: Classical Object Oriented Concepts explain a class as a cookie cutter. A class allows you to create objects of the class. As a programmer you define a class with data fields, properties, methods and events. Then you can create objects based on that class that have state (fields, properties) and behavior (methods, events). A class can be considered as a specification of how the object of the class should look like and behave.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Access and Manipulate SQL Server data - Using Stored Procedures - In this tutorial you will learn further more about Access and Manipulate SQL Server data - Using Stored Procedures, Creating a Stored Procedure, Running Stored Procedures from .NET, Using Parameters in Stored Procedures, The @@IDENTITY Variable

Learn about the basics of building mobile Web applications with ASP.NET Mobile Controls. See how the control model and drag and drop designer make it easy to target nearly 200 devices (cell phones, PDAs and pagers) from a single mobile Web form. Find out what the adaptive rendering and rich customization and extensibility models can do for your mobile Web applications.

When developing ASP.NET applications, you may sometimes need to implement a custom validation that is recognized and displayed by the ValidationSummary control so that all validation error message appear in one place without additional coding. You also want to implement this custom validation by using page CodeBehinds, as you would like to leave the ASPX page with the miminum code necessary. This article shows you how in nine easy steps, complete with screen captures and code descriptions.

Learn how to serialize .NET classes to Xml at runtime using System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer. Then, use SQL Server's OPENXML functionality to bulk load hundreds of records across multiple tables in a single stored procedure call.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Access and Manipulate Data - Using DataSets - In this tutorial you will learn about Using DataSets, Populating a DataSet From a Database, Moving Around in DataSets and Retrieving Data, Using Strongly Typed DataSets, DataSets With Multiple Tables.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Access and Manipulate SQL Server data - Using Ad Hoc Queries - In this tutorial you will learn about Consuming and Manipulating Data Viz. Access and Manipulate SQL Server data - Using Ad Hoc Queries; Running Queries, The SELECT Statement, The INSERT Statement, The UPDATE Statement and The DELETE Statement.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Instantiating - Invoking Web Services, Creating Proxy Classes with WSDL In this tutorial you will learn about Discovering Web Services, Instantiating and Invoking Web Services, Creating Proxy Classes with the Web Services Description Language Tool (wsdl.exe)

The control offers a very user friendly mobile device experience in that it allows the user to use their stylus / mouse to adjust the weight for a given decision criteria instead of typing the numbers.