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"Visual Basic Orcas Programmer's Reference" is a language tutorial and a reference guide to the upcoming Orcas release of Visual Basic. The tutorial provides basic material suitable for beginners but also includes in-depth content for more advanced developers. The second part of the book is a reference that quickly allows programmers to locate information for specific language features. The entries in these appendices allow the reader to quickly review the details of important programming, objects, properties, methods, and events."Visual Basic Orcas Programmer's Reference" will be fully revised (30 percent) to cover the latest features of the Orcas release, including: changes to variable declaration and initialization XLinq support for XML data types; query comprehensions for using SQL-like syntax to extract data from arrays and other data structures; extension methods for adding new features to existing classes; nested subroutines and functions; anonymous subroutines and functions ("lambda expressions"); nullable types; relaxed delegates; dynamic interfaces; and, dynamic identifiers.

The author expects about 100 new pages of new examples covering these features; he will also extensively revise and retest all code to ensure compliance with the Orcas release.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Excellent VB 2008 introduction, 22 Mar 2008 By  W. Roberts "Bill" (South Wales) - See all my reviews    An excellent introduction to the new Visual Studio 2008. Plenty of code examples available for download from the book's website as well. The appendices in particular are very good for reference - often a lot easier and quicker than using the VS help files, which can be quite slow and difficult to find what you want. I've been using VB.Net since the version 1 beta release, and so know it quite well, but there's still a lot of stuff covered in the book that I either didn't know or had forgotten about. All in all, well worth the money, and should be a useful reference for a few years to come. And as a bonus, it also increases your upper-body strength as well - quite large and heavy!  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews