pt. I. Visual Basic .NET Essentials. Ch. 1. Essential Skills for Visual Basic .NET. Ch. 2. What's New in Visual Basic .NET? Ch. 3. Introduction to .NET. Ch. 4. Visual Basic Projects -- pt. II. Advanced Visual Basic .NET. Ch. 5. Visual Basic .NET: The Language. Ch. 6. Writing and Using Procedures. Ch. 7. Error Handling and Debugging. Ch. 8. Working with Windows Forms -- pt. III. ASP.NET Essentials. Ch. 9. Introduction to ASP.NET. Ch. 10. Introduction to Web Forms. Ch. 11. Working with XML Web Services. Ch. 12. Developing Web Applications with ASP.NET -- Pt IV. Database Programming. Ch. 13. Basic Concepts of Relational Databases. Ch. 14. A First Look at ADO.NET. Ch. 15. Using the ADO.NET Objects to Retrieve Data. Ch. 16. Editing Data with ADO.NET. Ch. 17. Using Windows Forms with ADO.NET -- pt. V. XML and VB .NET. Ch. 18. Using XML with Visual Basic .NET. Ch. 19. Using XML in Web Applications -- pt. VI. Building Real-World Applications. Ch. 20. Planning Applications. Ch. 21. VS .NET Deployment Considerations. Ch. 22. Three-Tiered Applications. Ch. 23. Sample Projects.