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Containing more than three hundred Visual Basic.NET tips, techniques, tricks, and best practices, a guide for advanced Visual Basic programmers and developers explains how to use Visual Basic.NET within the .NET Framework, how to mrigrate programs from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic.NET, and such concepts as ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, XML and Soap, and more. Original. (Advanced)