Readers working through An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET first take a look at how to analyze the business requirements of an application. Next, readers look at modeling the objects and relationships involved in the solution design. Finally, readers implement the solution using Visual Basic .NET. Along the way, one learns the fundamentals of software design, the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and Visual Basic .NET. This book is especially for the beginning VB .NET programmer who wants to gain a foundation in OOP along with the VB language basics. Programmers transitioning from a procedural oriented programming model to an object-oriented model will also benefit from this book. There are also a large number of pre-.NET VB programmers who do not have a firm grasp of OOP: now is the time to become acquainted with the fundamentals of OOP, before transitioning to VB .NET. Because the experience level of a beginning can vary immensely, Dan Clark has also included a primer in Appendix A that discusses some fundamental procedural programming concepts.