| OverviewProgramming Visual Basic .NET, Second
Edition is the complete guide to application development
using Visual Basic .NET. Thorough, entertaining, and easy
to follow, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed
overview of the language, object-oriented programming, and
the .NET Framework, and goes even further--you'll learn how
to create Windows and Web applications, as well as Web
services. Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionProgramming Visual Basic .NET, Second Edition is the complete guide to application development using Visual Basic .NET. Entirely rewritten by .NET expert Jesse Liberty, the new edition of this tutorial will be essential reading for the millions of Visual Basic programmers looking to make the change to Microsoft's .NET programming environment. Thorough, entertaining, and easy to follow, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of the language, object-oriented programming, and the .NET Framework, and goes even further--you'll learn how to create Windows and Web applications, as well as Web services. A comprehensive introduction to the Visual Basic .NET language, this new edition covers topics of greatest concern to VB6 programmers who wish to make the transition from traditional Visual Basic 6 programming to the new object-oriented, component-based world of .NET. Loaded with practical examples for intermediate and advanced programmers, Programming Visual Basic .NET focuses on turning you into a proficient .NET developer. Some of the topics in the book include: - Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Framework
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Building Windows Applications
- Accessing Data with ADO.NET
- ASP.NET
- Web Services
and much more
Jesse Liberty's books have successfully guided thousands of new and experienced programmers alike into the world of .NET programming and Programming Visual Basic .NET, Second Edition will be no exception. This book is sure to become a key component of developers' .NET libraries. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 9 reviews. Great book for an overview of Visual Basic .Net, 2004-10-25 Reviewer rating: I am an experienced VB6 programmer who was familiar with Object Oriented concepts since I have also programmed a little bit in C++ and Java. This book was perfect for me. It gave me a great overview of the language and reinforced the object oriented concepts.
I use this book as a reference for day to day programming but I also keep
Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference)
by Francesco Balena
handy for detailed explanations. | kind of disappointing, 2004-05-27 Reviewer rating: Some of the code examples in this book are laughably wrong. Especially the section about declaring arrays. There must be at least a dozen different kinds of errors in the section about declaring arrays. The author even gets wrong that the number you give in an array declaration is the upper-bound not the size. It makes you question how well the author really understands the language. Also, the book skimps on certain important areas, such as dynamically adding event handlers. Overall, I'd say this book is not that great for an introduction (too many errors) and lacking as an advanced guide (not enough detail). So I'm not really sure who it would be useful for. | Good book to start with VB but don't expect anything more !, 2003-11-22 Reviewer rating: This book is BOTH good and bad ! This is DEFINITELY NOT for those people who are learning to program and need a VB.Net book that starts with explaining what the CPU and RAM are ! WHY GOOD - It is a great introduction to VB.Net for experienced programmers (experienced with VB6 or other programming language). The fundamentals of the language cosntruct (like the usual If clause, While loop etc.) are nicely condensed into one single chapter (Ch 3). Every chapter in Part-1 of the book explains one or more related language concepts in an easy to understand manner. Until the end of Part-1, all the code examples can be done using Notepad and compiled with the Visual Basic command line compiler (You do NOT even need Visual Studio.Net !). This is very good since it focuses on learning the language concepts rather than forcing you to get familiar with a strange IDE if you have not used Visual Studio before. Though there are some obvious errors in the code samples in Arrays and Strings chapter, they are no showstoppers in understanding the underlying concepts. Overall the part-1 of this book helps you to get upto speed on VB.Net very quickly. I did not read Part-3 yet, but I expect the treatment to be similar to Part-1, since Part-3 also deals with more theoritical aspects like Part-1. WHY BAD - I read every page of this book until Part-1 but Part-2, where each chapter deals with things like Window forms/Ado.Net/Web forms (which themselves are separate books on the market), can be very intimidating as the author tries to cover a lot of ground in a very short space. For example, the code example in Chapter-13 for Windows forms, is gargantuan for a first time Winform program to be developed in Visual Studio.Net. Moreover, the code download from the author's website is also not of much use since the author had hidden some code to save space in the book and uploaded the same thing in his website also ! Overall, a good starting point to get into VB.Net but don't expect to learn everything about .Net with this book alone ! If you are already into VB.Net and looking to learn more about ADO.Net or Web forms, then this book is definitely NOT for you ! | Need more content, 2003-11-20 Reviewer rating: Overall it's a decent book VB language. However if it has more contents/examples on Windows Form will make it a lot better. | C# programmer learns by code sample, 2003-11-15 Reviewer rating: Probably the best way to learn how to code in any language is to program with the examples in the book. I'm an experienced programmer in C#, but needed to get up to speed on VB.NET quick for some consulting work. I won a copy of Programming Visual Basic .NET 2nd ed. at a "WeProgram.NET" .NET user group meeting, and started reading it immediately. I skipped reading most of the explanations and went straight to the code (serious coders will understand this urge!). Even without reading much of the text, the code examples, while unimaginative, were selected well enough for me to pick up on the language, including its idiosyncrasies. I also like the fact that, for the text I did read, he explains why he is doing things a certain way. This would be really helpful for someone just learning to program or making the transition to .NET. The only problem I really have with the examples is that it did not make clear what code was part of VisualBasic interop. Since I am now coding in two .NET languages, I don't want to have to remember CInt for one language and Convert.ToInt32 for another. I know this book is geared toward experienced VB6 programmers, but let's start doing things the .NET way. That's why it's here. |
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