Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9780735625372 ISBN: 0735625379 Label: Microsoft Press Manufacturer: Microsoft Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 546 Publication Date: January 27, 2008 Publisher: Microsoft Press Sales Rank: 8506 Studio: Microsoft Press
Product DescriptionTeach yourself the fundamentals of working with Visual Basic 2008 one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you re a beginning programmer or new to this specific language, you ll understand the core capabilities and fundamental techniques for Visual Basic 2008 and rapidly build robust, elegant applications. Each chapter puts you to work, showing you how, when, and why to use the latest features of Visual Basic guiding you each step of the way as you create actual components and working applications for Windows. You ll also explore data management and Web-based development topics. PLUS get practice files with sample code and data sets on the companion CD.
Key Book Benefits
Covers the latest enhancements and features of Visual Basic 2008
Provides step-by-step guidance on how to use Visual Basic 2008 with Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008 to create smart-client and Web applications
Features easy-to-follow, logically planned lessons in the popular STEP BY STEP format ideal for anyone with fundamental programming skills
Includes a companion CD with data sets and code samples
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Excellent tutorial and reference.
Started from scratch with a VB 2008 Experss Edition project. Even though this book was not written for Express, it was an excellent guide. I purchased a book written for VB 2008 Express and did not even use it becaues this book was so much better.
Rating: - Well done Michael!
I'm almost to the very end of the book now and I must say Halvorson did a great job with this book. Someone here complained that he kept making references back to other things in the book. Well, yes. However, you gotta keep in mind if you pick this book up just to refresh yourself on a particular task, say learning Printing, you might need to also refer to an earlier part of the book for a particular aspect of programming that is used in Printing. Michael does an excellent job of making references ... Read More
Rating: - Good for beginners
Good book for who do not have some experience with VB programming but not for those who wanted some in-depth knowledge.
I found some free documentation of vb.net 2005 and, to me, was very helpful.
Rating: - Great Book
This book is great for starters and pro alike. But you need to keep your mind open as you do the exercises. For instance i encountered this problem while i was doing MyCheckBox exercise. The author gave the code in the book as
If CheckBox1.Checkstate = 1 Then
PictureBox1.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile _
("c:\vb08sbs\chap03\calcultr")
PictureBox1.Visible =True
Else
PictureBox1.Visible = False
End IF ... Read More
Rating: - Step by Step says it all
I am almost finished with this book. I am working my way through this and one of the "dummies" guides at the same time. I am getting much more out of this book. The examples are clear. Everything has worked (so far!) and I like the general pace. A side note: make sure to check out all the (free) help on the web if you are learing a new language! Before I beat my head against the wall too long, normally a quick google will help point me the right direction.
- Excellent tutorial and reference.
- Good for beginners
