Section A: Introduction
· Windows & Visual Basic
· Significance of Visual Basic
· Windows API
· Backward Compatibility
· DLL Issues
· Support Between Languages

Section B: .NET Platform & Components
· Major .NET Improvements
· Single Development Language
· Design Goals & Architecture
· Future of .NET
· .NET Framework
· Common Language Runtime
· Common Type System
· Intermediate Language

Section C: .NET Tools
· Visual Basic.NET
· Visual C++ & Visual SourceSafe
· Missing Tools

Section D: VB.NET Overview
· VB.NET Upgrade Concerns
· Previous Upgrade Concerns
· Data Types
· Supported Data Types
· Objects

Section E: VB.NET Memory Addressing
· Memory Addressing
· Value Types
· "The Stack"
· Reference Types
· "The Heap"
· Value vs. Reference
· Boxing
· Unboxing

Section F: Data Access Technologies
· Data Considerations
· Storage Options
· Data Translators
· Data Access Object Model
· ActiveX Data Objects
· Use Command Objects
· Record Set Object

Section G: ADO.NET
· ADO.NET Object Model
· Connection Object
· Command Object
· DataReader Object
· DataAdapter & DataSet Objects
· Use DataAdapter
· Use DataSet

Section A: Upgrade to ADO.NET
· Upgrade Wizard
· Upgrade Reports
· Post Upgrade Concerns
· Use Dataform Wizard
· Create New Connection
· Selecting Data
· Troubleshooting

Section B: Object Oriented Programming
· History of Object Oriented Programming
· Object Oriented Concepts
· Object Oriented VB
· Inheritance
· Using Inheritance
· Interfaces
· Implementing Interfaces
· Properties
· Using Properties
· Get Properties
· Set Properties
· Write Only & Read Only
· Other New Features

Section C: Code Changes
· Storing Dates
· Default Properties
· Arrays

Section D: Application Architecture
· Threading Model
· Exception Handling
· Compiling Applications
· VBC Compiler

Section E: WinForms
· Local Forms
· Forms in VB6.0
· Use of WinForms
· Create WinForm
· Form Properties
· Adding Controls
· Troubleshooting & Testing WinForms
· Upgrading VB6 Forms

Section F: WebForms
· Web-Based Forms
· Active Server Pages
· Use of WebForms
· Create WebForm
· WebForm Properties
· Button Event
· Upgrade from ASP & DHTML