Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9780470182383 ISBN: 0470182385 Label: For Dummies Manufacturer: For Dummies Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 360 Publication Date: March 31, 2008 Publisher: For Dummies Sales Rank: 129826 Studio: For Dummies
Product DescriptionVisual Basic is a favorite programming language, so if you’re new to programming, it’s a great place to start. Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies is the fun and easy way to begin creating applications right away while you get the hang of using the Visual Studio environment. Soon you’ll be building all sorts of useful stuff with VB 2008!
This step-by-step guide walks you through a logical series of tasks that build your skills as you get comfortable with .Net terminology, theory, tools, and design principles. You’ll learn how to build an application in four different architectural styles, and you’ll find out how to make your programs validate input and output, make decisions, and protect themselves from security threats. Discover how to:
Install the Visual Studio environment
Write a VB program
Use Web forms, Windows forms, and Web services
Establish good programming practices
Create class libraries
Write secure applications
Debug your applications
Work with strings and “if-then” statements
Iterate with counted and nested loops
Pass arguments and get return values
Access data with VB.NET
Work with the file system using VB
You’ll also find great tips for working with the VB user interface, using VB.NET in C# programming, troubleshooting your VB programs, taking your programming to the next level, and more! Once you get your hands on Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies, you’ll be programming like a genius in no time!
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Rating: - Get a jump on programming in Visual-Basic 2008!
This book is designed to get you going quickly in Microsoft Visual Basic 2008. It's not a reference, it's probably not for the complete beginner, and true dummies probably won't be up to this level. Rather it is an entertaining tour for those with some modest programming experience on how to get going quickly in VB 2008. If you are a self-starter, this is the book for you!
The author packs the book full of useful "how to's." Rather than trying to answer every question you could possibly ... Read More
Rating: - Don't cripple yourself
Try as hard as I can, I cannot find anything positive to say about this "book". Don't be fooled by the table of content, it might sound "juicy" but it's as illusory as a politicians promises ... There 's no substance in this text, and the whole teaching strategy is flawed. If you begin your programming journey here you will probably conclude programming is not an art, an intellectual challenge, or an intriguing game, but a boring routine to help visual studio write boring useless applications. You might ... Read More
Rating: - Spend your money on a real VB book
I am sure there is some worthwhile information between the covers of this book - I just couldn't find it. I would recommend to people that have the basics already, spend your money on a real VB book.
- Get a jump on programming in Visual-Basic 2008!
- Don't cripple yourself
