- Paperback: 592 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (13 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201734958
- ISBN-13: 978-0201734959
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.7 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,878,846 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book is written for programmers who have experience with previous versions of Visual Basic. Its primary goal is to teach these programmers about the OOP concepts and syntax what will be new to them when moving to Visual Basic .NET. The move to VB.NET has been slower than was expected, and perhaps the biggest reason for this has been the need for existing VB programmers to learn OOP concepts and syntax. This is the book that experienced VB programmers have been looking for. Not only will it teach them traditional OOP theory from a VB point of view, but it will also show them how to use modern OOP concepts and syntax in order to develop applications faster. Ted Pattison has shown, with the huge success of his previous book, Programming Distributed Applications with COM and Visual Basic, Microsoft Press, that there is not only a large audience for this information, but that he is the most trusted source for this information.
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Praise for Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET
“Ted shows a great depth of knowledge all the way down to the underlying mechanics of .NET. The author’s depth in certain areas, like Events and Delegates, makes this a very useful book.”
—Gregory A. Beamer, Microsoft MVP“The content in Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET is quite unique; I don’t think any other book covers the OOP features in the detail as this book does. This book is a definitive guide for all VB developers looking to master OOP skills.”
—Darshan Singh, Managing Editor, PerfectXML.com“As a whole, the book is excellent—clear, and concise enough while still giving all the necessary details.”
—Gerard Frantz, Consultant“Ted does a good job explaining the various OOP concepts and the high-level view of the CLR and related concepts. I definitely learned some things about the CLR that I didn’t know, and I found it a good read.”
—Paul Vick, Technical Lead, Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Corp.“When Ted’s first book came out in 1998 I dashed to the bookstore in a Harry- Potter-esque frenzy. That book taught me everything I needed to know about VB6, COM, MTS, etc. Now five years later, I have the privilege of reviewing his new VB.NET book (and also counting Ted as a good friend). Ted has done it again: combining the deep experience he’s gained in his years working with DevelopMentor with his strong grasp of all things .NET, Ted has given us a book that’s as easy to read as it is deep, informative, and accurate. This is THE book you need if you want to go long with Visual Basic .NET. To quote my Amazon review of his first book: ‘Thank you Ted, you’ve done us all a service by writing this great new volume on Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Framework.’”
—George Bullock, MSDN“As you move forward into the .NET Framework with Visual Basic .NET, you’ll find the material in this book to be valuable.”
—From the Foreword by Rocky LhotkaBuilding Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET is the Visual Basic developer's guide to the .NET framework and object-oriented programming.
The authors introduce the basic architecture of the .NET Framework and explore Visual Basic .NET's new OOP features, the syntax required to use them, and the effect that syntax has on code behavior. Readers gain skills essential to creating well-designed applications and component libraries for the .NET Framework.
Among the topics explored in depth are:
Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET is the definitive guide to a quick and smooth transition to this new language, and an indispensable tool for becoming comfortable and productive with Visual Basic .NET.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a great guide for programming in Visual Basic .NET. It's extremely well written & is highly detailed. It is very technical and covers lots of language detail unlike other books which seem to gloss over this, but it does explain things very clearly with examples. It covers command line and graphical programming. It has great language detail and shows you have to use the language in the best way. I haven't yet found a book as good as this for C# programming.
I would definitely recommend this book.
I would definitely recommend this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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First IT text I have ever read cover-to-cover. Clear concise descriptions and the best approach I've seen. e.g. shows you how to throw an exception _before_ catching one, shows you how to create a namespace _before_ discussing OO concepts from VB perspective. Clearly written for an educated audience who are new to this particular language. Highly recommended.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Jaw Droppingly Good - A Masterpiece of Technical Writing.
9 May 2004
Format:Paperback
I toyed with the idea of writing a really long and detailed review about the content of this book (like so many you see on Amazon), but in a nutshell, this book is a masterpiece, it's what all technical books should aspire to be, comprehensive, thorough, mercifully free of unnecessary flab, and deeply intelligent in its choice of concise and ingenious examples.
It left me with the feeling that I'd been hit by a truck with the word 'clarity' emblazoned on the side.
you won't be a .Net guru afterwards because .Net is Massive!
but...
it is in my view the best 'foundation' book of any kind I've ever had the pleasure to read, read it and then read Balena, Esposito et al, but I can't emphasize enough read this first, it is hearteningly and informatively brilliant. You WILL understand Visual Basic .net after reading it, after that go on to books that exploit specific namespaces like ADO.net, ASP.net, winforms, XML web services etc.. this book is not about any of that it's about the compiler, assemblies , types and the framework, the plumbing! this is anatomy class, surgery should come later, and as these things go, it's 'the business'!
It just goes to show that there are still people in this world who really do care about what they put their name to.
'****New Addition (10 months on, I've read it again)
Upon re-reading the book I was struck but how it was even more useful 2nd time round, but also particularly by how economical and highly informative the comments inside the code are. They are magnificent. I've found it very useful when the author is illustrating a particular point, to show for example, the return value of a method call as a comment to the right. When the main point of the example is 'watch out, this does something you don't expect' the code becomes complete, you can understand it without having to run it. I do think however that you understand code much better if you do run it. The point I'm making is that writing great and very succint comments is an art, and one I think the authors have completely mastered. You can read the book in transit and still make sense of all the examples.
'*** end of New Addition
It left me with the feeling that I'd been hit by a truck with the word 'clarity' emblazoned on the side.
you won't be a .Net guru afterwards because .Net is Massive!
but...
it is in my view the best 'foundation' book of any kind I've ever had the pleasure to read, read it and then read Balena, Esposito et al, but I can't emphasize enough read this first, it is hearteningly and informatively brilliant. You WILL understand Visual Basic .net after reading it, after that go on to books that exploit specific namespaces like ADO.net, ASP.net, winforms, XML web services etc.. this book is not about any of that it's about the compiler, assemblies , types and the framework, the plumbing! this is anatomy class, surgery should come later, and as these things go, it's 'the business'!
It just goes to show that there are still people in this world who really do care about what they put their name to.
'****New Addition (10 months on, I've read it again)
Upon re-reading the book I was struck but how it was even more useful 2nd time round, but also particularly by how economical and highly informative the comments inside the code are. They are magnificent. I've found it very useful when the author is illustrating a particular point, to show for example, the return value of a method call as a comment to the right. When the main point of the example is 'watch out, this does something you don't expect' the code becomes complete, you can understand it without having to run it. I do think however that you understand code much better if you do run it. The point I'm making is that writing great and very succint comments is an art, and one I think the authors have completely mastered. You can read the book in transit and still make sense of all the examples.
'*** end of New Addition
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A must-read book, even for experienced VB programmers
6 Dec 2003
Format:Paperback
I can't be the only VB programmer who has been dragged, kicking and screaming, into the OO world - as I've followed VB through its update history. But in the .NET world OO is everything, including lots of concepts that I've used but never really got round to reading up on and learning from the ground up. Things like inheritance, polymorphism and delegates are obvious examples. And then there's the .NET-specific stuff, like boxing, value-types and reference-types, method over-riding and dynamic binding.
OK, so you can get away with knowing "just enough to get by", but this book really does make it easy to catch up on the concepts and terminology - even if you are fairly new to programming. I found it extremely easy to read, sharp and to the point, and even has those nice disguised touches of humor. I can't figure out yet why the FetchSlippers method in my implementation of the SuperDog class still doesn't work!
My advice: if you can't explain straight out to someone what boxing or polymorphism means now, you'll be a better programmer for reading this book. Well done Ted and Joe...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
It doesn't get any better than this
31 Dec 2003
Format:Paperback
I was looking at this book the other day and wasn't sure about it. I've recently picked up a few copies of Addison-Wesley's .NET Developer's series and really loved them, but thought "Oh boy, another VB.NET component book" But, when I looked at the cover, Francesco Balena and Rockford Lhotka both wrote parts of the Foreword and couldnt' have said nicer things. Well, I have everything that either of them have written and respect both of those authors blindly. If Balena or Lhotka say this book is good, it's good. Well, it's fabulous. Pattison is nothing short of amazing. The level of detail he covers things in is almost scarry. If you want to understand your art, and your art is VB.NET, this book is for you.. I couldn't find something to criticize about this book if you paid me to. Great examples, even better explanations and an author that can communicate to anyone - and can get his point across very succinctly!
So, now I've now added Pattison to my list of Balena, Appleman, MacDonald and Lhotka as my favorite VB authors!
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