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by Billy Hollis (Author), Rockford Lhotka (Author), Richard Case (Author), Whitney Hankinson (Author), Bill Sheldon (Author), Jonathan Pinnock (Author), Bill Forgey (Author) "New technologies force change, nowhere more so than in computers and software ..." (more)

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Paperback: 942 pages
Publisher: WROX Press Ltd; illustrated edition edition (1 Aug 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1861004974
ISBN-13: 978-1861004970
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18 x 5.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,003,763 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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VB.NET is Microsoft's more powerful and elegant replacement for VB, designed to work with its .NET platform. As Professional VB.NET points out in the introduction, it has basically the same functionality as C# and C++ for .NET, including full OO. It's interesting that it also points out the many problems with VB--problems that used to be glossed over--while enthusing about VB.NET. The improvements though are real, as you'll quickly appreciate.

Professional VB.NET covers the new IDE, CLR, changes to types--including the new Object class--and Namespaces among others. You'll learn the new error-handling methods including Try/Catch/Finally and the creation and deployment of classes and controls, inheritance from controls, composite controls and so on. The OO warnings, with examples, of the dangers involved in inheritance are particularly welcome. Backward compatibility with COM is covered as is running VB.NET code disguised as a COM object. XML, the underlying data storage format--is covered along with Web forms, though Web programming is left to companion volume, Professional ASP.NET.

Professional VB.NET is thorough, with plenty of worked examples, but assumes you're already familiar with VB. Unlike many previous VB.NET titles it's based on release code rather than the beta. With Professional VB.NET working VB programmers can move to VB.NET on the fly. --Steve Patient

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Visual Basic.NET is the next version of Visual Basic and a major part of Microsoft's .NET initiative. Responding to pressure from the VB community, VB.NET is a significant upgrade that is far more flexible and powerful than previous versions. Microsoft have introduced a number of new features, not least a move to full object-oriented programming and greatly enhanced web design facilities.

This comprehensive book takes an in-depth look at the new and enhanced features of VB.NET and provides the professional programmer with the knowledge needed to build real-world applications and fully utilize the power of VB.NET.

This book covers:
An introduction to the .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime (CLR)

Deriving classes from base classes using inheritance

Handling errors with the Try...Catch structure

Developing multi-threaded applications

COM and .NET component interoperability

Accessing data with ADO.NET and XML

Building web applications with Web Forms

Creating custom controls for Windows Forms and Web Forms

Creating and consuming Web Services

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another high quality and informative book from Wrox, 11 Nov 2001

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This book is in the same league as all the other Wrox Press books - high quality and very informative. Even though VB.NET is still in Beta 2 with the majority of features in place for the final version, this book does very well to explain whats new and how to migrate from VB6 to VB.NET. There are lots of examples in each of the many sections and the authors do an excellent job of explaining how things are different to VB6, what to watch out for and other good bits of advice. One assumption is made, and stated at the start of the book, and that is that you do have a firm grasp of VB6. Without it, you'll quickly get lost in this book and VB.NET in general. But if you have been using VB6 for a while, you'll sail though the 900+ pages and be well versed in VB.NET at the end of it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great starting point for VB.Net, 21 Nov 2004

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This review is from: Professional VB.NET 2003 (Paperback)

If you're familiar with previous versions of VB, in particular VB6, you'll find this book a great introduction to VB.Net.

There is a lot to learn, inheritance, garbage collection, windows forms, web forms, web services, etc. The list is endless! No, this book can't describe every single feature of the .Net framework, but at least it clearly describes the essential things that would be so hard to find/understand without a book like this.

For me, this book was invaluable.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad at all, 27 Oct 2001

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This book does not help you migrate from VB6, it only tells new features in the .NET architecture. It is recomended for experienced VB programmers or VB programmers with experience of some other object oriented programing (OOP) knowledge. For the not very experienced programmer, I'll wait until the proper .NET release comes out, this book is based on the Beta 2 version.

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A number of people had input into this book which lends itself to unnecessary repetition, but worse than that the intended audience viers between advanced to novice with... Read more

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected.
This book is good for a VB6 developer wanting to move to VB.Net. It has good explanations of OOP, and the new language features. But for a more experienced VB. Read more

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