- Paperback
- Publisher: Microsoft Press (1 Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 007285054X
- ISBN-13: 978-0072850543
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,057,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Accelerate your productivity with Visual Basic® .NET—and quickly create powerful Win32® applications and high-performance, scalable applications for the Web—with this indispensable tutorial and reference. Building on the success of the author’s popular programming book for Visual Basic 6.0, this new book teaches you the best practices for porting and reusing existing Visual Basic code in the .NET Framework as well as for exploiting the language’s advanced new object-oriented capabilities. It covers the common language runtime (CLR), multithreaded programs, Windows® Forms applications, GDI+ graphic programming, Windows services, ADO.NET classes for database programs, ASP.NET Web Forms, and Web Services. It includes advanced optimization techniques and tips for leveraging the power of the Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET environment.
Topics covered include:
- Getting started with Visual Basic .NET
- Modules, variables, and error handling
- Object-oriented features, including inheritance
- Delegates and attributes
- Arrays, lists, and collections
- Files, directories, and streams
- Object serialization
- Regular expressions
- Threading
- Assemblies and AppDomains
- Reflection
- Windows Forms applications and GDI+
- Windows Forms custom control creation
- Windows services
- ADO.NET
- XML
- ASP.NET Web Forms applications
- User controls and custom controls
- XML Web services
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- A fully searchable electronic copy of PROGRAMMING MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6.0
- Sample applications written in Visual Basic .NET
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is a huge hardback volume (nearly 1600 pages). You might assume that this size is due to needlessly wordy prose, unnecessary diagrams and tables, and failed humour. In fact this is solid concise cover-to-cover useful information, written in a exceptionally clear, readable style by someone who really knows what they're talking about. Most of the stuff you need to know about VB.NET is in here, somewhere, for both desktop and web apps. A book that will spend more time on your desk than the shelf, and you'll actually want browse in bed. It's probably a good alternative to exam guide books as well.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having previously read Francesco Balena's "Programming Visual Basic 6" I went for this book primarily because he had written it. He knows more about Visual Basic than any other author I have encountered. It should be stressed though that this book is not ideal for beginners, but for those who are progressing from VB6. It describes the workings of the .Net framework in the opening chapter, and then opens up what VB.Net can do and how to do it in the chapters that ensue. Excellent book for those looking to understand the ins and outs of how VB.Net works, and indeed as a programming core reference that you'll turn to when you get stuck.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've been programming with Visual Basic for several years now and thought it time to give VB.Net a go and after seeing the reviews for this book I bought it.
"Visual Basic.Net Core Reference" is very easy to read, has a lot of easy to follow tutorials that walk you through how to create examples that use many of the different features that VB.Net has to offer.
I would recommend this book for anyone at any level that wants to learn VB.Net.
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This is the book to read to gain an understanding of VB.net. If you have no idea about VB.net programming then its not for you, but once you're up and running it will make for... Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2004 by I. M. Carr
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I chose this book on the basis that it was aimed at Visual Basic 6 developers wishing to progress to the . Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2003
Massive and probably worth it!
This book is massive, and covers virtually everything about vb.net.
If you are an environmentalist then you may want to look elsewhere as I think a lot of paper has been wasted... Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2003 by Jennifers Daddy
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