Ten minibooks spanning nearly 1,000 pages deliver the know-how programmers need to get down to work using the new version of Microsoft's development platform. Thoroughly revised and refocused, the book now includes more information on navigating the Visual Studio IDE (integrated development environment), working with the available tools, using Windows Forms, and creating real-world Web and Windows applications. Minibooks cover the Visual Studio IDE, ASP.NET 2, Visual Basic 2005, Visual C# 2005, Visual C++ 2005, Visual J# 2005, SQL Server and databases, Web services, building Windows applications in Visual Studio 2005, and Windows Forms.