Going Further with Visual Basic

While the My feature offers a wide variety of functionality, you may find yourself wanting to go beyond My and explore what the .NET Framework offers. These pages provide overviews and pointers to the relevant documentation for areas of the .NET Framework, including forms, network operations, and Web services.

In This Section

• Authentication and Authorization in the .NET Framework with Visual Basic
  Describes how to use the .NET Framework for user authentication and authorization.

• Collections in the .NET Framework with Visual Basic
  Describes the specialized classes for data storage and retrieval provided by the .NET Framework.

• File I/O in the .NET Framework with Visual Basic
  Describes how to use the .NET Framework for file I/O.

• Logging and Tracing in the .NET Framework with Visual Basic
  Describes how to use the .NET Framework when creating and manipulating logs or tracing.

• Network Operations in the .NET Framework with Visual Basic
  Describes how to use the .NET Framework when performing network operations.

• Port Operations in the .NET Framework with Visual Basic
  Describes how to use the .NET Framework when performing port operations.

• Serialization (C# and Visual Basic)
  Describes how to use the .NET Framework for serialization.

• Windows Forms Application Concepts in Visual Basic
  Provides an overview of Windows applications.

• Windows Forms Application Concepts in Visual Basic
  Provides an overview of the .NET Framework classes and concepts that are related to Windows Forms applications.