Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9780735621831 ISBN: 0735621837 Label: Microsoft Press Manufacturer: Microsoft Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 990 Platform: No Operating System Publication Date: January 25, 2006 Publisher: Microsoft Press Sales Rank: 66283 Studio: Microsoft Press
Product DescriptionGet the expert insights, indispensable reference, and practical instruction needed to exploit the core language features and capabilities in Visual Basic 2005. Well-known Visual Basic programming author Francesco Balena expertly guides you through the fundamentals, including modules, keywords, and inheritance, and builds your mastery of more-advanced topics such as delegates, assemblies, and My Namespace. Combining in-depth reference with extensive, hands-on code examples and best-practices advice, this CORE REFERENCE delivers the key resources you need to develop professional-level programming skills for smart clients and the Web.
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Rating: - Good Book
I had a case dealing with Version Tolerant Serialization, after searching the web; they all came up short. I double checked the book later, and found the answer I needed. That 1 time more than paid for this book.
Rating: - a great book
I made an international request for this book and in the ship info they told me that the delivery of this item would be delayed... but it didn't. i got this book sooner than expected.
it was a geat thing that i got this book before the estimated delivery date!!
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Rating: - Great book -- but probabably not for newbies
The things I like about this book are that the topics it covers are very well done. It covers some of the trickier aspects like threading and regular expressions. Being an experienced programmer I like the fact that you can jump around in the book to just the aspects of the language that you are interested. I will warn the novice programmer that this is probably not a good starter book, but if you are ready for the material you will find that it has a good balance of code examples, and explanation. ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent, monumental book - but not for everyone
Visual Basic appeared more than 15 years ago as a tool to define quick prototypes and develop GUI applications with ease. Its development environment, which the language was literally blended in, was remarkably easy to use. I remember those good old days when a fellow colleague of mine showed me how to draw VB forms and in less than an hour after I was already developing a new GUI application.
Visual Basic has gone through a long way since then. The language is nowadays a powerful, complex, ... Read More
Rating: - excellent book for experienced programmer
I based my purchase of this book on the reviews on it, and I must say that they were accurate. This book is an exceptionally good means for an experienced programmer to learn how to program in Visual Basic 2005. Assuming one already is familiar with typical program mechanisms and mindsets, this book allows you to immediately become effective without wasting time discussing elementary concepts.
I should also add that the writing of the book is pleasant, the proofing very well done, and the ... Read More
- Good Book
