Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit provides you with 24 structured lessons with step-by-step guidance to real-world programming tasks for developing Windows applications. Each chapter includes practice exercises, tips, notes, and cautions, providing easy-to-understand advice on how to start programming quickly. Sidebars provide more advanced tips that will ease your migration from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET, or help you as you continue to work with Visual Basic 2005 programming.
The accompanying CD includes Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, which will provide you with a visual integrated development environment for creating Windows applications. The Express Edition makes Windows programming with Visual Basic fun and easy-to-learn. Together with Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit, it's the perfect way for experienced Visual Basic 6.0 developers to try out new features.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - VERY pleased and VERY impressed!!!
I don't understand all the "negative reviews" I've seen so far...I am VERY PLEASED with the book and the method of learning. So far, I have not run across anything in the book that didn't work, or better still, make sense!! I have spent a lot of money on the "RED" books, and also the "BLACK books with 'tools' on the front"...to no avail. All of those books speak as if I already knew what an "object" and a "property" and a "class" was...
This book put everything into perspective ... Read More
Rating: - Sam's is the greatest!
Sam's "Teach yourself" books are always great! This book shows what it takes to get started and progress in the world of Visual Basic .Net 2005.
Always recommended!
Rating: - not good - frustrating
I agree with GenomeSpinner, that this book could have been alot better. I ended up not even finishing the book because I was getting frustrated at not being able to do any exercise after the first couple chapters(which I was able to do with time and perseverance). But even when I stopped being able to complete the exercises I read on hoping that it would click and I'd be able to go back and finish the earlier exercises but I was wrong, I read up to chapter 18 and then I just gave up because not being ... Read More
Rating: - I used to be a beginner!
Let me start off by saying I'm not a total idiot when it comes to computers, but I've never done any programming before. I use a program called ArcGIS at work, which uses VBA to customize the software. I decided to investigate programming a bit further and purchased this book. WOW! What a great way to learn. The step by step instructions are fantastic. Mr. Foxall challenges the reader to do some activities at the end of each chapter, requiring you to use what you learned. Yes, some of the information ... Read More
Rating: - Terrible
To begin by being fair this author is somewhat humorous at times and takes a somewhat "surfer dude" approach to the art of programming.
However...
In all honesty I would not recommend this book to you unless you want something to throw out of pure frustration. I say this because the author takes a slack tone and gives vague examples in his chapters and then has examples at the end of each chapter as with most "Sam's" books. His however ask you to complete tasks that you have ... Read More
- VERY pleased and VERY impressed!!!
- not good - frustrating
