Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Author Ed Robinson, Michael Bond, Robert Ian Oliver 
ISBN 0-7356-1587-X 576 page

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET offers remarkable power and flexibility, with richer object models for data, forms, transactions, and more. But you must upgrade applications before they’ll compile and run in the Microsoft .NET environment. Get the in-depth technical details you need to upgrade Visual Basic applications efficiently with this upgrade-specific reference. Learn about advanced Visual Basic .NET functionality such as inheritance, multithreading, drag-and-drop XML Web services, RAD programmability for servers, the forms package, and more. Examine side-by-side code examples, and learn to evaluate which projects can benefit from an upgrade and which might function best in a mixed-code environment. And get programming tips and tricks that help you make the most of the epic shift to .NET.