Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9780130461315 ISBN: 0130461318 Label: Prentice Hall PTR Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1168 Publication Date: August 14, 2002 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Sales Rank: 558090 Studio: Prentice Hall PTR
Product DescriptionIn Visual Basic .NET: For Experienced Programmers, a team of world-renowned corporate trainers deliver an advanced guide to Visual Basic .NET specifically focused on the features that give professional developers the greatest power. Harvey and Paul Deitel, whose best-selling textbooks have trained millions of developers worldwide, teach Visual Basic .NET's most powerful features using their unique Live-CodeaA A TM approach: every new concept is presented in the context of a complete, working example, immediately followed by windows showing exactly what the code does. The Deitels demonstrate how to make the most of Visual Basic .NET object-oriented features such as inheritance and polymorphism, then offer expert guidance on building advanced GUIs with Windows Forms. They introduce XML programming with Visual Basic .NET, cover multithreading, and present detailed coverage of files and streams, including a full chapter on networking with streams-based sockets and datagrams. The book includes practical techniques for enhancing database access; building Web applications and Web services; and utilizing .NET's powerful collection classes.
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Rating: - Informative but too wordy
Very informative; discusses many concepts and targets intermediate to advanced programmers. However, too bloated with things like
"When a program opens a file and reads from the file, the program will later have to close the file to allow other programs access the file".
The authors must have never heard of "it", "they", and other time-saving features of the language. This makes it tedious and boring at times. I'm sure better books exist, but they (the books - get it? ... Read More
Rating: - different kind of vb book - ok for beginers too
Its really not that advanced and does a very thorough review of basic programming concepts.
It does have that wordy textbook feel to it, which makes you wonder what happend to the questions at the end of the chapter. But its thorough and really gives you a good understanding of the VB language if you've never done any VB programming.
Good or bad, it spends most of the first 8 chapters programing in console, no fun GUIs till chapters 9 and 10. Which is a bit odd as most of ... Read More
Rating: - This book helps you get up to speed on VB .NET quickly
I recently finished reading Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers by Deitel, Deitel, Nieto, and Yaeger, and found it to be very well written and a great tool to learn Visual Basic .NET. The book covers all the important aspects of Visual Basic .NET (the IDE, object-oriented approach, graphical user interface, multithreading, XML, ADO .NET, ASP .NET and Web services, and the mobile Internet) in approximately 1000 pages - quite a feat. Each chapter contains several entire programs ('Live-code ... Read More
Rating: - It deserves its price more than twice
It is easy to read. You must keep it on your desk as long as you continue programming in Visual Basic. I have found different programming styles and approaches. Actually I did not finish it yet. It is not easy to read it all in few weeks. It is filled up with knowledge of programming. I can suggest this book to any visual basic programmer. Because They can use this styles and approaches in VB 6.0, 5.0 etc too. Maybe you will learn this knowledge in two years but with this book you will make it very ... Read More
Rating: - boring,boring, boring, avoid!
This is a rehash of the same Deitel style textbook which I suffered through in school. They were boring, boring boring then, they are boring boring boring now.
You would be much better off buying Gary Cornell's great book from Apress which has a similar title. It's much cheaper, much better written and it's not boring, boring, boring. Unlike the Deitel's, Cornell can teach real programmers with boring them.
The Deitel's seem to have created an industry of writing boring wordy ... Read More
- Informative but too wordy
- This book helps you get up to speed on VB .NET quickly
- boring,boring, boring, avoid!
