Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9781593270742 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 1593270747 Label: No Starch Press Manufacturer: No Starch Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: April 30, 2006 Publisher: No Starch Press Sales Rank: 341863 Studio: No Starch Press
Product DescriptionThe Book of Visual Basic 2005 is a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft's newest programming language, Visual Basic 2005, the next iteration of Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft has dropped the .NET in the title). A complete revision to the highly acclaimed Book of VB .NET, the book is organized as a series of lightning tours and real-world examples that show developers the VB 2005 way of doing things. Perfect for old-school Visual Basic developers who haven't made the jump to .NET, this book is also useful to developers from other programming backgrounds (like Java) who want to cut to the chase and quickly learn how to program with VB 2005.
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Rating: - good but not perfect, recommended!
I enjoyed reading this book, esp. on serialization and some topics on transitioning from VB 6 to .net. Not for beginners, but if you know how to program, it won't hurt to have this book and go through the topics, you will learn a lot from it. I'm given this 4 stars only as I'm looking for a book that will be able to answer my VB questions clearly.
Recommended!
Rating: - Become A Better VB Developer!!
'The Book of Visual Basic 2005: .NET Insight for Classic VB Developers' by Matthew MacDonald is another fantastic book written by the busy author Matthew MacDonald. Presented in a very entertaining and fun format thanks to the No Starch line, this book will cover Visual Basic 2005 from top to bottom and show you why it's one of the most popular and easy languages to develop in. With ~500 pages of material and 14 chapters, this book doesn't skimp on any of the good stuff (plenty of whip cream and ... Read More
Rating: - VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Are you a Visual Basic 6 developer? If you are, then this book is for you. Author Matthew MacDonald, has done an outstanding job of writing a book about Visual Basic 6 developers who want to shed some of their current habits and start learning more about how the .NET platform works and thinks.
MacDonald, begins by showing you why Microsoft decided to create a whole new framework for programming and what it threw in. Then, the author provides an overview of the design environment. Next, ... Read More
Rating: - Great book for the intended audience
The focus of this book is to take a traditional Visual Basic developer who is already experienced writing Visual Basic programs and use that as a base to move them to the .NET platform. One of the problems of the traditional Visual Basic program has been that it has its own way of doing things and is built on a platform that is different from other object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java. Of course this is not the only problem but if you program in more than one language then Visual Basic's ... Read More
Rating: - Truly excellent read
Very well written and organized. I've read it once and am re-reading it again. Highly recommended.
- good but not perfect, recommended!
