This book combines the DEITEL signature live-code approach with a new APPLICATION-DRIVEN™ methodology, in which readers build real-world applications that incorporate Visual Basic .NET programming fundamentals. Using a step-by-step tutorial approach, readers learn programming basics. Each successive tutorial builds on the readers’ previously learned concepts and introduces new programming features in this comprehensive introduction to Visual Basic .NET. We also include higher-end topics such as database programming, multimedia and graphics and Web applications development.