Visual Basic 2005 will be available as part of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 suite of developer tools, which is due to be released sometime in the first half of 2005. Now that the second generation of the .NET technologies is being released, we should see a much quicker adoption of the platform as compared with the first version of .NET in 2001. Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit provides readers with 24 structured lessons with step-by-step guidance to real-world programming tasks for developing Windows applications. Each chapter includes practice exercises, tips, notes, and cautions providing easy-to-understand advice on how to start programming quickly. Sidebars provide more experienced readers with tips that will ease their migration from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET.Accompanying CD contains Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition which provides the reader with a visual integrated development environment for creating Windows applications. Targeted for release on "final code" day and date with the product release. Well known author James Foxall teaches readers everything they need to know to quickly start programming in Visual Basic 2005