YouvE PROBABLY BEEN HEARING ABOUT Microsofts .NET Framework and the new features ofVisual Basic.NET. Perhaps youve read articles about it in magazines. Perhaps youve read promotional material from Microsoft. Perhaps youve even played with one ofthe beta versions. Regardless of howyouve learned about it, youre probably feeling a bit over­ whelmed. Its such a massive change both in language and approach that its difficult to sort out the reality from the marketing and difficult to decide where o ne should actually start when approaching this new technology. Thats what this book is about. ? Its about the priorities you should use in learning .NET and the strategies you should use in deciding how and when to deploy .NET. ? Its about the concepts you need to know in order to understand the new features ofVisual Basic.NET and how they will influence the way you write code under this new framework. ? And its about the changes in the Visual Basic language itself.