What Makes This Book Unique

Visual Studio .NET is not new anymore. Since the product's release in early 2002, Microsoft has been evangelizing the advantages of .NET, Web services, and just moving ahead in the programming game in general.

You probably already have a couple of books on .NET.^[1] Perhaps you have written a program or two just to try things out and kick the tires a little. My local bookstore has multiple shelves filled with books on .NET. What distinguishes this book from the others is the application-oriented aspect. As I have stated, I present an end result here that you may not see in other books.

You will see quite a few techniques in this book that you can surely find elsewhere. However, instead of showing you how to program mouse events, for example, I show you how to program mouse events within the context of the all-important data entry screen.

You might consider this book a consolidation of best practices for getting the most out of the .NET Framework with an eye toward the user interface and data validation. Knowing a technique is not the same as knowing how to apply it. This book teaches you how to better apply what you probably do on a daily basis, but within the context of .NET.