Visual Basic 9 completely eliminates the barrier between the code you write and the XML you're trying to express. Creating, querying, and transforming XML is much more intuitive and productive than ever before.

Learn the ins and outs of REALbasic, an application development environment for creating native applications and utilities. Its cross-platform capability makes it easy to compile the applications and utilities you create on one platform and run them on another.

ASP.NET 3.5 and LINQ provide the greatest amount of functionality yet for building data-aware web applications. Even if you prefer to write stored procedures, you can still leverage some of LINQ to SQL functionality for accessing stored procedures inside .NET.

Learn how to use parse trees to evaluate mathematical expressions, and how to use sorted trees.

This book is a thorough exploration of Visual Basic 2008's capabilities, written for developers by an expert developer. Chapter 34, excerpted here, covers printing with VB.NET, including graphics, charts, text, formatting to fit the page, and print previews.

Learn tree nomenclature and how to build binary trees that can recursively traverse and draw their own nodes.

Find out how to empower your users by supporting drag and drop features in your Windows Forms applications.

Find out how to add iPhone-like UI features to your WPF applications.