Product DescriptionStep-by-Step Instruction on Complex Topics Leads You to the Expert Level
Do you scour VB.NET books seeking solutions for esoteric database programming, debugging, security, or printing challenges, but can't ever find them? Are you wrestling with VB.NET's newer topics, such as asynchronous programming, Web services, employing Office objects, using reflection, and the .NET Compact Framework? Could you use some assistance making the transition from VB6 to VB.NET? If so, peer inside.
Visual Basic .NET Power Tools is intended for professional programmers geared up to tackle the complex, cutting-edge, and sophisticated aspects of VB.NET. In this rare book, two world-renowned VB authors thoroughly describe a broad range of fascinating and important aspects of VB that aren't addressed elsewhere.
This solutions-oriented guide teaches you how to:
Get under the hood of the .NET Framework, and find out why it works the way it does
Employ serialization techniques
Leverage Microsoft Office in your applications
Master encryption, hashing, and creating keys
Learn advanced printing techniques
Use the new reflection technology to look inside executing assemblies
Build data-driven Web applications
Design data-driven Windows applications
Work with regular expressions
Employ advanced graphics techniques
Create professional-looking forms
Design effective User Interfaces
Use the .NET Compact Framework and its emerging technologies
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Much better than its title suggests
Note: There is something odd about Amazon's processing of technical reviews. People goofing off, or what? I submitted this a couple of days ago and it never appeared - perhaps this will be the lucky time. The only other time this happened was also with a computer-related review. Anyway, here goes....
I haven't read every page of this 560-page book, but I've seen enough to make me want to give a really strong recommendation. If you are working with VB.Net at all, you probably need this ... Read More
Rating: - Not a good grasp of programming
It is very sad that this book is as bad as it is. I would recommend almost any other book for .NET if you actually want to know what you are doing. There are a FEW good examples, but it ends there.
This person actually says english and art people are better programmers than math and science people because most ALL apps today use little or no math. What an idiot. If anyone has written code for ANYTHING you will find that you use math a lot!
Rating: - Not Scared to Be Critical of .NET
First of all, we all know that .NET harnesses way more power that VB6. However, we also know what a pain it was when we had to make that leap to adjust our thinking to the new platform, and quite frankly it was a hard one for most of us. Things that seemed rather easy before were made unnessarily difficult. (Or so it seemed to us VB6 programmers).
Well this book starts right off the bat explaining the "Why's" of that and is not shy to be honest. I appreciate that, especially after reading ... Read More
Rating: - Great informative book
I have purchased several vb.net books over the past couple of years, somewhere around 6-7 books. None were as informative and precise as this book. The authors provide many details that all the other books do not cover. They give many inside details that otherwise many programmers like myself would probably never know. Chapter 1 alone gives a lot of insight into the .net framework that all of my other books did not provide. Without going into every aspect of this book that makes it stand out above the ... Read More
Rating: - Great VB .NET book with a lot of material
This is a must have book for Visual Basic programmers. It has a lot of practical tools to give your programs the edge.
- Much better than its title suggests
- Not a good grasp of programming
