Advanced Visual Basic 2026 Programming, Volume 2

Take your VB.NET skills to the next level with modern, professional application development.

Advanced Visual Basic 2026 Programming, Volume 2 continues the Advanced Order Manager project from Volume 1 and focuses on building responsive, data-driven, secure, testable, and deployment-ready applications with Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10.

Designed for intermediate and advanced VB.NET developers, this volume shows how professional application features work together inside a realistic multi-project Windows Forms solution.

• Async and Await with Task, cancellation, and progress reporting

• Concurrency and thread safety using Task.WhenAll, SemaphoreSlim, and concurrent collections

• SQL Server LocalDB and ADO.NET with parameterized queries and repositories

• Entity Framework Core with DbContext, LINQ, IDbContextFactory, and read-only queries

• REST API integration using HttpClient, JSON, GET, and POST

• HTTP resilience with retries, timeouts, and circuit breakers

• API security using API keys, bearer tokens, and User Secrets

• Input validation and defensive programming

• Automated testing with MSTest, test doubles, and unit/integration tests

• Structured logging, diagnostics, and correlation IDs

• Performance and memory management with IDisposable, Using, garbage collection, and runtime monitoring

• Release builds, configuration validation, publishing, and deployment

The project is organized into:

Domain → Application → Infrastructure → WinForms → Tests

This structure demonstrates dependency injection, separation of concerns, testable services, database access, external APIs, diagnostics, and secure configuration in a practical application.

Rather than presenting unrelated code examples, each chapter progressively extends the same Advanced Order Manager project so you can see how professional VB.NET applications evolve.

Complete project source code is available on GitHub, with chapter-by-chapter versions that make it easy to follow the development process and experiment with the code.

This book is ideal for intermediate VB.NET developers, students, educators, and programmers who already understand basic Visual Basic syntax, classes, collections, and Windows Forms and want to progress into modern .NET application development.

If you are ready to move beyond basic VB.NET programming and learn how to build secure, maintainable, testable, and deployment-ready applications, Volume 2 provides the practical next step.