Part 1 Visual Basic desktop applications: essentials of Visual Basic; Microsoft's enterprise development strategy; establishing the development agreement; creating user services; building and using ActiveX controls; using Microsoft transaction services; accessing data from the middle tier. Part 2 Visual Basic distributed applications: building stored procedures with SQL; implementing security; advanced client/server technologies; building Internet applications; testing the solution; delploying an application; maintaining and supporting an application; practice exam 1 - desktop applications; practice exam 2 - desktop applications; practice exam 3 - distributed applications; practice exam 4 - distributed applications; appendix - about the Web site.