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Visual Basic 6 Introduction Part II

Enhance Your VB Skills With These Three Simple Units....
Unit 1: Variables, Procedures, and Functions
Unit 2: Control-of-Flow Language
Unit 3: User Interaction

Sharpen your Visual Basic skills with FREE comprehensive online training. Visual Basic 6 Introduction Part II provides you with an advanced, in-depth look into the functionality and programming capabilities of Visual Basic 6.0. Make yourself more marketable this year by building up your VB skill set. Read below for course details and click here for a full course outline.

RUSHING TO THE .NET 

In this article, XML expert Roy Hoobler discusses the benefits and disadvantages of VB.NET and walks you through how he and his team developed a .NET Web service.
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci785827,00.html 

VS.NET: CHANGING WEB APPLICATION LOCATION 

A user sends us this tip: "While Developing applications in VS.NET, the project will not open if the project directory is changed or renamed. This can be resolved by editing the .webInfo file in the project."
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid26_gci801327,00.html 

DISCUSSION DAY: HOW TO APPROACH .NET 

DATE: February 27
TIME: 9:30a to 1:30p, Eastern Time
WHO : Howard Kolodny, CTO of Guidance Solutions

Join us in the searchWebServices Best Practices Discussion Forum
where Howard will answer your questions on how to approach .NET
within your organization, including what to worry about and what not
to worry about. Don't miss this opportunity to post your .NET
questions for our expert.

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/1,289142,sid26_gci802762,00.html 

PASSING DATASETS VIA WEB SERVICES 

Datasets are a completely disconnected way of passing data between
components, functions, or applications. What you may not realize is
that the "killer app" for Datasets is Web services.

for full tip including a video demonstration:
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid26_gci802781,00.html 

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid26_tax289011,00.html 

WHAT IS SOAP? 

Check out this cool Flash animation to help you understand how SOAP
technology works.

view movie:
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/searchWebServices/downloads/what_is_soap.swf 

* Real solutions with Visual Studio .NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/casestudies/default.asp   

* Visual Studio .NET Demos
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/demos/default.asp 

* Get Started With Visual Studio .NET: Skills Resources from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/vsnet/ 

* .NET Developer Career Skills Roadmap
http://www.microsoft.com/netdevroadmap/ 

* Visual Studio .NET Product Documentation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vsstartpage.asp?frame=true 

* Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/IntroVisStuNet.asp?frame=true 

* Smart Thinking
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnroad/html/Road02132002.asp?frame=true 

* Building Industry Standard WSDL
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dn_voices_webservice/html/service02062002.asp?frame=true 

* Don Box on the Importance of Being WSDL
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwsdl/html/boxwsdl.asp 

* Getting Started with XML Web Services in Visual Studio .NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchGettingStartedWithXMLWebServicesInVisualStudioNET.asp 

* Microsoft BizTalkT Accelerator for HIPAA
http://www.microsoft.com/solutions/hipaa 

* International Keyboards for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/keyboards.asp 

* Wintellect .NET Web Services FAQ
http://www.wintellect.com/resources/faqs/default.asp?faq_id=3 

Here is the link to a Decompiler of Dot Net software.

http://www.remotesoft.com/

12 Considerations for .NET App Migration
You need to weigh a wide array of issues before you move your applications to .NET—use these 12 as a starting point.
by Jonathan Goodyear  http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_03/magazine/features/jgoodyear/ 

Create Custom Performance Counters are your key to getting performance and business logic data from your ASP.NET apps. See how to create your own. (from Visual Studio Magazine)

Editorial: Abandoning the Fantasy of VB Migration Wizardry
So how hard is it really to upgrade a VB6 application to VB.NET? Harder than you think. DevX Editor-in-Chief Lori Piquet gives you a realistic appraisal of what's involved in migration from an interview with Federico Zoufaly, the man at the center of the .NET migration universe.

Speed Freak's Guide to Retrieving Data in ADO.NET
Web developers love speed. Whether it's fast cars or fast code, raw power and high speed will get the most mundane developer pumped up. It's our nature. Sure, developers seek application horsepower to help the business, but underlying this pragmatism is the reality that we enjoy trying to eke out every last drop of speed from our applications. In the process, our sites run faster, our customers are happier and we are temporarily satiated...until the next need for speed arises. If you have a need for speed and aren't sure of the best way to get data using ADO.NET, this article by Craig Davis is for you.

Web Form Page Properties
You can improve the performance of your ASP.NET Web Forms (or improve the end user's experience) by means of a few interesting Page properties:
* Reduce traffic with the EnableViewState property
* Use the AutoPostBack property
* Improve navigation with the SmartNavigation property
* Save data in the ViewState collection

WebMenu for ASP.NET
By Coalesys, Inc.
Rich-UI Server Control for creating DHTML Hierarchical Menus.
Written in C# and designed for cross-browser compatibility.
Supports PostBack events and VS.NET integration. Also includes a
stand-alone visual modeling application.
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/ads/adnav.aspx?AdID=20 

Raising Events and Responding to Events Submitted by Donny Mack - 2/17/2002
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/news/default.aspx?newsid=267 Discusses raising and responding to events in Visual Basic .NET,
and how to utilize the flexibility Visual Basic .NET offers in associating event handlers with events, including dynamic association
of event handlers with events at run time. (14 printed pages)

PASSING DATASETS VIA WEB SERVICES Datasets are a completely disconnected way of passing data between components, functions, or applications. What you may not realize is that the "killer app" for Datasets is Web services.

video demonstration: http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid26_gci802781,00.html 

Strongly Typed Web Services Made Simple
The System.Data.Dataset class provides a great way to deliver complex data structures with Web Services.
by Bill Wagner http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2002_02/online/online_eprods/webservices_bwagner02_22/ 

UNDERSTANDING HOW SOAP WORKS by Preston Gralla http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid26_gci803858,00.html 

VS.NET: CHANGING WEB APPLICATION LOCATION

While Developing applications in VS.NET, the project will not open if
the project directory is changed or renamed. This can be resolved by
editing the .webInfo file in the project.
http://searchvb.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid8_gci802327,00.html 

ADDING ANIMATED GIFS TO VB FORMS 
Member luis_roig asks: "I want to put a gif 'moving' in a form. If I
put it into a picture box or image box, I only get the first frame
without moving. I also can transform it in singles images and load it
in image control with a timer interval, but I want to put the gif
directly moving. Can I do that?" Find out how members responded...

http://forums.vb-web-directory.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002254.html 

WHAT IS SOAP? Flash Movie: by .NET guru Bob Tabor

What is SOAP and how does it work? Find out in our exclusive video
authored by developer and Visual Studio expert Bob Tabor. This easy
to understand overview provides you with the information you need to
know. (Requires Windows Media Player)

watch the SOAP Flash movie... http://www.searchwebservices.com/searchWebServices/downloads/what_is_soap.swf