| OverviewTo bring you up to speed with Visual Basic 2005, this
practical book offers nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one
explores a new feature of the language, with emphasis on
changes that can increase productivity, simplify programming
tasks, and help you add new functionality to your
applications. You get the goods straight from the masters in
an informal, code-intensive style. Part of our new
Developer's Notebook series. Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionWhen Microsoft introduced the Visual Basic .NET programming language, as part of its move to the .NET Framework two years ago, many developers willingly made the switch. Millions of others, however, continued to stick with Visual Basic 6. They weren't ready for such a radical change, which included an object-oriented environment similar to Java. They liked the old Visual Basic just fine. In an effort to win over those diehard VB6 developers, the company has included a new version of VB.NET in its upcoming next generation release of the Visual Studio .NET development platform. Visual Basic 2005 comes with innovative language constructs, new compiler features, dramatically enhanced productivity and an improved debugging experience. The language's new version is now available in beta release, and Microsoft is encouraging developers to give it a test drive. Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook provides the ideal test track. With nearly 50 hands-on projects, this practical introduction to VB 2005 will bring you up to speed on all the new features of this language by allowing you to work with them directly. The book summarizes the changes that VB 2005 brings, and tells you how to acquire, install and configure the beta version of VB 2005 SDK. Each project or experiment explores a different feature, with emphasis on changes that can increase productivity, simplify programming tasks, and help you add new functionality to your applications. This one-of-a-kind book also offers suggestions for further experimentation, links to on-line documentation and other sources of information, and practical notes and warnings from the author. The new Developer's Notebooks series from O'Reilly offers an in-depth first look at important new tools for software developers. Emphasizing example over explanation and practice over theory, they focus on learning by doing you'll get the goods straight from the masters, in an informal and code-intensive style. For those who want to get up speed with VB 2005 right away, this is the perfect all lab, no lecture guide. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 13 reviews. Great for 2003-->2005 Upgrade, 2006-05-19 Reviewer rating: This book nicely captures a balance between ultra-condensed "Nutshell" books and the mighty 1,000 page+ tomes. It is aimed at experienced VB developers switching from Visual Studio 2003/CRL 1.1 to Visual Studio 2005/CLR 2.0. It has nice concise examples with great explanations.
This book is not an introduction to Visual Basic. If you're just getting into .Net I'd recommend looking for another book--at least at first. But, if you've been coding awhile and are looking to migrate to the latest version, I highly recommend this volume.
| Great value, 2006-05-10 Reviewer rating: The VB 2005 Developer's Notebook is just chock-full of very useful and immediately usable information, much of which is not readily available elsewhere. For example, I recently made use of the section on adding images and controls to the datagridview. There's also a very useful intro to using the new factory model to write database-agnostic code.
The examples are not complex, and chances are that after MacDonald gets you started in the right direction, you'll need to find more detailed information from the SDK or other source as you build a more complex real-world app. But, the value in seeing in a concise and easily accessible example how you might tackle some problem makes this book well worth the price. | A great start for someone moving up to VB 2005, 2006-03-22 Reviewer rating: This is an excellent book for people moving from VB 2003 to VB 2005. It just gives an overview of what has changed, pointing out the issues and limitations in 2003 and the improvements to these issues in 2005. It presumes you are already familiar with VB 2003, so this is not a primer. It's a quick read, and had me constantly saying "Thank goodness - they've done something about that". All the examples are straightforward. Writing style is very straightforward. Every topic has where to go for further help. | Excellent Quick Read, 2006-02-26 Reviewer rating: I found that Visual Basic 2005 "A Developer's Notebook" was a quick and informative read. While many topics only scratched the surface, that's exactly why the book was written, to get the VB.Net developer up to speed on changes and enhancements to both the language and environment. Good Job! | Fast Way to Upgrade from VB .Net 2003 to 2005, 2006-02-23 Reviewer rating: On the back cover the book says that it is designed to help experienced .Net 2003 developers move up to 2005. From that point of view I think it is excellent. In one evening I had a good overview of what has changed and the features that I am likely to use. Because it focuses on developers familiar with previous versions, you do not have to wade through pages of things you already know in order to find a few nuggets. |
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