Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9780596100711 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 059610071X Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 214 Publication Date: September 22, 2005 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 340274 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionOkay, all you VB6 developers--time's up. As of March 2005, Microsoft no longer supports this version of Visual Basic. And you can't blame them. Three years ago, they introduced the .NET Framework--an elegant, powerful platform--along with the new component-based VB.NET language. But roughly five million of you decided to stick with VB6, mostly to maintain legacy Windows and COM projects.
Now, with the upcoming release of VB 2005, Microsoft has several attractive reasons to upgrade that you'll find hard to resist, including the return of some VB6 features. And we have the perfect book to help you make the conversion: Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart. Now, you can test-drive the beta version of VB 2005 with three hands-on projects that enable you to learn the syntax of this new language quickly.
VB 2005 not only lets you convert the bulk of your existing VB6 code, but offers several familiar features, such as compile-and-run debugging, new MyClasses that simplify use of .NET libraries and frameworks, lots of IDE support for Windows, web and mobile GUI development, and data access controls that closely resemble what you use now. The real plus is that you'll be using these features with the .NET platform, which is more secure, less complex than COM, and offers OneClick deployment.
Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart lets you get the feel of this platform for building smart/rich Windows Forms clients, ASP.NET web applications, and web services. Author Wei-Meng Lee, a Microsoft .NET MVP, veteran O'Reilly author and frequent contributor to the O'Reilly Network, has put together three useful test-drive projects, complete with code samples, that let you develop:
A personal library Windows application
A Web-based shopping cart application
A stock enquiry Web Service
Our jumpstart guide is the quick, painless way to migrate from VB6 to VB 2005, and the perfect training manual for moving your organization to the more robust, dynamic and secure world of .NET.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Like going to a MS VB demonstration
This book is like sitting in one of those two-day seminars where they have a couple of examples that show things that they want to get across and as long as you are willing to stay on the guided tour, they work well. There are some nice nuggets in this book. My favorite is that Wei-Meng chose to go into the Amazon Web Services in one example. Learning about this was worth the price of admission.
On the other hand, I got so sick of hearing about how VB was doing all the "heavy lifting" ... Read More
Rating: - The Why, not the How
Technically speaking, there is nothing wrong with this book. This title is aimed at giving VB6 users a whirlwind tour of the VB2005 environment, highlighting additions, deletions, and changes. If you don't have a VB6 background, this read isn't for you. The overview starts with a look at the new Visual Studio environment, showing you some of the toolbar objects with and without data binding. The next few chapters show off some of the newer statements and functions to VB, a peek into the .NET framework ... Read More
Rating: - Poorly written but better than nothing
This book is aimed squarely at seasoned VB6 programmers and covers the new features in VB2005 reasonably well. The code is available at the O'Reilly web site, although I often timeout accessing downloads there. Annoyingly a lot of the links aren't online, so you have to type in URLs like one at Microsft that includes the text "/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=06616212-0356-46a0-8da2-eebc53a68034&displaylang=en" to access essential downloads needed to work through the examples. The book also appears to ... Read More
Rating: - Great little Book to get you Started in VB 2005
This is a great first book in VB 2005. Easy to follow tutorial will help you get up and running in no time.
I found this to be a good short tutorial. I think many will be pleased with the Visual Studio 2005 editions....
Rating: - Great For Experienced VB Developers
This book is a great guide for all seasoned Visual Basic 6 developers who want to get a nice taste of what to expect out of Visual Basic 2005. For those individuals who are strictly used to using Visual Basic 6, you will not be scared off by the author's analysis of the new features in 2005 such as things like the nice addition My Namespace. For people that have already made the switch to the Visual Basic.NET and were upset to see Edit and Continue vanish, you will be happy to see it's return in VB2005. ... Read More
- Like going to a MS VB demonstration
- Great little Book to get you Started in VB 2005
