Advanced Visual Basic 2026 Programming, Volume 2: Professional VB.NET Development with Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10: Async, EF Core, REST APIs & Sec

By Voon Kiong Liew

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.

What You Will Learn

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

Build a Professional VB.NET Architecture

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.

Source Code Included

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.

Who This Book Is For

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFGP2BVK
• ISBN13: 9798193008729
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 2.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"