Señor

Evangelos Petroutsos

MASTERING
Microsoft
®

Visual Basic 2010
®

Build Rich Client and Web Applications with Visual Basic

Work with the .NET Framework 4.0

SERIOUS SKILLS.

Mastering
Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010

Mastering
Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010

Evangelos Petroutsos

Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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