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Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9781861007612 Edition: 2nd ISBN: 1861007612 Label: Wrox Press Manufacturer: Wrox Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 880 Publication Date: 2002-08 Publisher: Wrox Press Studio: Wrox Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Visual Basic .NET is the latest version of the most widely used programming language in the world, popular with professional developers and complete beginners alike. This book will teach you Visual Basic .NET from first principles. You'll quickly and easily learn how to write Visual Basic .NET code and create attractive windows and forms for the users of your applications. To get you started on the road to professional development, you'll also learn about object-oriented programming, creating your own controls, working with databases, creating menus, and working with graphics. This second edition has been thoroughly tested on the full release version of .NET. The book is written in the proven Wrox beginning style with clear explanations and plenty of code samples. Every new concept is explained thoroughly with Try It Out examples and there are end-of-chapter questions to test yourself. This book covers: - Installing Visual Basic .NET - How to write Visual Basic .NET code - What the .NET Framework is and why it's important - Controlling the flow through your application with loops and branching structures - Creating useful windows and screens - Creating your own menus - A complete introduction to object-oriented programming - Working with graphics - Creating your own controls - Accessing databases with ADO.NET - Creating applications for the Web Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good learning guide...I loved the sample and explanations on XML serialization as well as the topic on collections. What I didn't like was the their discussion of objects esp. the example - a CAR. It could have been much helpful if they had stick with the customer and bill classes. Overall, I can recommend this to programmers with experience on other languages, and it would help if you know already the basics of objects, as the discussion on classes will only be on Chapter 10. If you are a novice or VB beginner, I would ... Read More Rating:  - Excellent book "A must have"This book is excellent for beginners; it explains all steps in details. It is definitively a must have! Rating:  - Not as good as I had hopedI looked this book over pretty well at Borders before buying it from Amazon, but was unpleasantly surprised once I began to read it straight through. Critical information is omitted from some topics. Continuity seems illogical. And the website, though expertly administrated, has a small subscriber base. The book is not very well organized and is carelessly written. For twice the price, the Deitel offering is ten times the tome. Rating:  - How did this book get 5 stars by other reviewersI am a seasoned programmer learning the .NET platform. At first this book seemed okay...the layout was pretty good and I found their presentation methods easy to learn from. Then I started running into some serious coding problems. Their ASP code examples are outdated and riddled with errors. No error errata on the website either to fix anything I saw. I spent more time trying to fix their stuff than I did acutally learning. It would be a good book if it wasn't for all the errors. They desperately ... Read More Rating: - Starts Simple, Goes Complex., Stays MicrosoftVisual Basic has now been around for some fifteen years. Through several versions it has progressed to be a fairly complex, fairly powerful language having been extended into the .NET family of languages, database connectivity, web functionality with both HTML and XML. At 800 pages, this is a large book. It starts quite simply doing a little program where you type in your name and it comes back with a 'Hello' statement. From there it goes step by step to fairly complex programming using Microsoft's ... Read More 
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