'Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library' answers the primary questions that VB.NET developers have as they start to develop code. As developers create .NET applications, this book will help them comprehend the capabilities of the existing namespaces in .NET and how to leverage them by extension or reference to create applications ranging from simple to complex. This book- discusses how to delineate and define the pieces of .NET; explains how/why .NET was conceived and what it means to VB6/ Windows DNA developers; teaches how to execute Windows programming using the .NET namespaces; positions the .NET namespaces within the context of the reader s project; instructs how to make architecture decisions when using .NET namespaces; offers details about the construction of Web Services and how they programmatically communicate with each other; presents concepts through call-outs and highlighted sections by relating previous VB6/Windows DNA best practices with the new .NET approach.