Recommend book for learning VB.Net 4.0 incl. multithreading

[wolf99]

Hi Folks

I have been using VB on and off for some time in an amateur/incidental manner, pretty much picking it up as I go along, which has served me well enough until now.
I can write a program with a few classes, some ADO usage and get the GUI to do what I want.

However I am now working on a project that requires a bit more formal of an approach, so I though maybe a good book would be a good place to start.
The project's main requirements is the use of multi-threading and that DB queries be reasonably efficient.

Thus I need recommendations for a good book that doesn't assume too much initial VB knowledge (i.e. not a reference book but an actual "teaching" book) that does provide some of help with the basics (how to separate logic or how to properly use namespaces, for instance), but that also covers things like LINQ, pLINQ, multi-threading, resource sharing, etc, it would be great to find one book that does it all .


As an example, looking at the MSDN site I did see Alessandro del Sole's "Visual Basic 2010 Unleashed" book which seems to have a description that mentions the right areas, but some reviews do remark that it can be a bit reference-y...

Thanks

PS: Oh, I need to use Ethernet and UDP comms as well and know very little about using them properly either!