VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Access and Manipulate Data - Working with Disk Files - In this tutorial you will learn about Access and Manipulate Data, Working with Disk Files, Browsing for Files, Streams and Backing Stores, Using the FileStream Class, Using the StreamReader and StreamWriter Classes, Using the BinaryReader and BinaryWriter Classes.

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: Adding Controls - In this tutorial let's discuss about Adding Controls to a Windows Form, Adding Controls using Windows Forms Designer, Adding Controls Dynamically and Setting properties of Controls. Sample source codes used in this tutorial are included. Forms are containers for control objects. All controls have properties, methods and events that can be used to customize their functionality. Controls can be manipulated in the designer mode and code can be added to dynamically add controls at run time.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Common Controls and Handling Control Events - In this tutorial we will be learning how to use common control like Control Hierarchy, Label and LinkLabel, TextBox and RichTextBox, PictureBox, GroupBox and Panel, Button, CheckBox and RadioButton, ListBox, CheckedListBox and ComboBox, DomainUpDown and NumericUpDown, MonthCalendar and DateTimePicker, TreeView and ListView, Timer, TrackBar and ProgressBar, HScrollBar, VScrollBar, TabControl and Handling Control Events.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Common Windows Form Controls Section:2 - In this tutorial we will learn about Common Windows Forms Controls in Visual Basic .NET 2005. In this part 2 of this article, We will be learning the controls like Control MonthCalendar and DateTimePicker, TreeView and ListView, Timer, TrackBar and ProgressBar, HScrollBar and VScrollBar.

In this tutorial you will learn about Complex Data Binding, Binding to a ComboBox or ListBox, Binding to a DataGrid. Complex data binding is the ability of a control to bind to more than one data element, typically more than one record in a database, or to more than one of any other type of bindable data elements.

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.

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 Components Section 2 - In Section 2 of Creating and Managing Components You will learn about Hosting a control inside Internet Explorer, HTMLAnchor Control, HTMLButton Control, HTMLGeneric Control, Creating Components by extending the Control class, Creating a custom control and Creating components by extending the Component class.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Creating Menu and Menu Items - In this tutorial we will learn about Creating Menu and Menu Items - Main Menu, Context Menu, StatusBar and ToolBar. Windows users are familiar with Menu objects. The MainMenu control represents the container for the menu structure of the form. Menus are made up of MenuItem objects that represent the individual parts of a menu. You can add submenus to menus that will pop up when the user clicks an arrow in the menu item, display check marks, create menu separators, assign shortcut keys to menu items , even draw the appearance of menu items yourself.