Visual Basic .NET Solutions Toolkit: 30 Practical Components for .NET

This book is a code library: it is a collection of components, classes, or nuggets of functionality that you can use, sometimes straight "out-of-the-box", sometimes with minimal tweaking. Each component is a flexible application building block, ready to fit neatly into your coding projects. Their usefulness stems from their encapsulation of code that is often common to many applications.

This book is also a discovery tool. Through the classes contained within this book, you can explore how the .NET Framework can be used to solve common problems. Each class also presents a set of programming techniques which take advantage of .NET's object orientation and extensive class library.

In writing this book, the authors' aim was threefold. First it is a simple catalogue of code, readily usable (and re-usable) that should allow you to speed up your development time. Second it is a collection of practical classes, not simple examples: these classes have been chosen for their usefulness in everyday coding. And third, by following a structured approach, each class illustrate a particular aspect of .NET Development, enabling you the reader to learn from them and apply these techniques to your own coding.