ABOUT THE SPEAKER Thom Robbins is a senior technology specialist with Microsoft. He is a frequent contributor to various magazines that include .NET, Visual Studio.NET, and Web Services Journal. Thom is also a frequent speaker at a variety of events including VS Live. SESSION DESCRIPTION Who says VB.NET programmers can't develop object-oriented applications? This session will show you how you can amaze your friends and co-workers with these techniques. We will start with the basics of OO and move into the more advanced techniques of inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation. Then we will explore how you can use these advanced techniques to create asynchronous Web service calls and provide better application performance.