Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9780735621831 ISBN: 0735621837 Label: Microsoft Press Manufacturer: Microsoft Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 990 Platform: No Operating System Publication Date: February 22, 2006 Publisher: Microsoft Press Sales Rank: 72136 Studio: Microsoft Press
Product DescriptionGet the expert insights, indispensable reference, and practical instruction needed to exploit the core language features and capabilities in Visual Basic 2005. Well-known Visual Basic programming author Francesco Balena expertly guides you through the fundamentals, including modules, keywords, and inheritance, and builds your mastery of more-advanced topics such as delegates, assemblies, and My Namespace. Combining in-depth reference with extensive, hands-on code examples and best-practices advice, this CORE REFERENCE delivers the key resources you need to develop professional-level programming skills for smart clients and the Web.
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Rating: - Great VB book for serious VB Programmers.
This is a great book.It has a lot of techniques that you would not normally use in your day to day programming tasks.It covers the language properly. Every chapter has actual code that works and that you could use in your projects.The author is definitely a master, and this book proves it.
The book helped me to pass the MS Exam 70-536, .Net Framework 2.0, Application Development Foundation. Most of the exam topics are covered in it.
The organization of the book is good, starts with the ... Read More
Rating: - Good Book
I had a case dealing with Version Tolerant Serialization, after searching the web; they all came up short. I double checked the book later, and found the answer I needed. That 1 time more than paid for this book.
Rating: - a great book
I made an international request for this book and in the ship info they told me that the delivery of this item would be delayed... but it didn't. i got this book sooner than expected.
it was a geat thing that i got this book before the estimated delivery date!!
thanks
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Rating: - Great book -- but probabably not for newbies
The things I like about this book are that the topics it covers are very well done. It covers some of the trickier aspects like threading and regular expressions. Being an experienced programmer I like the fact that you can jump around in the book to just the aspects of the language that you are interested. I will warn the novice programmer that this is probably not a good starter book, but if you are ready for the material you will find that it has a good balance of code examples, and explanation. ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent, monumental book - but not for everyone
Visual Basic appeared more than 15 years ago as a tool to define quick prototypes and develop GUI applications with ease. Its development environment, which the language was literally blended in, was remarkably easy to use. I remember those good old days when a fellow colleague of mine showed me how to draw VB forms and in less than an hour after I was already developing a new GUI application.
Visual Basic has gone through a long way since then. The language is nowadays a powerful, complex, ... Read More
- Great VB book for serious VB Programmers.
