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  • Paperback: 1056 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (14 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0764571982
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764571985
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 6.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 240,844 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Visual Basic 2005 Programmer′s Reference

Visual Basic 2005 adds new features to Visual Basic (VB) that make it a more powerful programming language than ever before. This combined tutorial and reference describes VB 2005 from scratch, while also offering in–depth content for more advanced developers. Whether you′re looking to learn the latest features of VB 2005 or you want a refresher of easily forgotten details, this book is an ideal resource.

Well–known VB expert Rod Stephens features the basics of Visual Basic 2005 programming in the first half of the book. The second half serves as a reference that allows you to quickly locate information for specific language features. It′s a comprehensive look at programming using the increased set of language options offered with the VB 2005 release, confirming that there has never been a better time to learn Visual Basic than now.

What you will learn from this book:

  • The fundamental concepts of object–oriented programming with Visual Basic, including classes and structures, inheritance and interfaces, and generics
  • How an application can interact with its environment, save and load data in external sources, and use standard dialog controls
  • The syntax for declaring subroutines, functions, generics, classes, and other important language concepts

Who this book is for:

This book is for programmers at all levels who are either looking to learn Visual Basic 2005 or have already mastered it and want some useful tips, tricks, and language details.

Wrox Programmer′s References are designed to give the experienced developer straight facts on a new technology, without hype or unnecessary explanations. They deliver hard information with plenty of practical examples to help you apply new tools to your development projects today.

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Visual Basic 2005 Programmer′s Reference

Visual Basic 2005 adds new features to Visual Basic (VB) that make it a more powerful programming language than ever before. This combined tutorial and reference describes VB 2005 from scratch, while also offering in–depth content for more advanced developers. Whether you′re looking to learn the latest features of VB 2005 or you want a refresher of easily forgotten details, this book is an ideal resource.

Well–known VB expert Rod Stephens features the basics of Visual Basic 2005 programming in the first half of the book. The second half serves as a reference that allows you to quickly locate information for specific language features. It′s a comprehensive look at programming using the increased set of language options offered with the VB 2005 release, confirming that there has never been a better time to learn Visual Basic than now.

What you will learn from this book

  • The fundamental concepts of object–oriented programming with Visual Basic, including classes and structures, inheritance and interfaces, and generics
  • How an application can interact with its environment, save and load data in external sources, and use standard dialog controls
  • The syntax for declaring subroutines, functions, generics, classes, and other important language concepts

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers at all levels who are either looking to learn Visual Basic 2005 or have already mastered it and want some useful tips, tricks, and language details.

Wrox Programmer′s References are designed to give the experienced developer straight facts on a new technology, without hype or unnecessary explanations. They deliver hard information with plenty of practical examples to help you apply new tools to your development projects today.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good VB2005 coverage - especially on Graphics Topics, 7 Jun 2006
By G. Mead "Ged Mead" (UK) - See all my reviews
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I found much of this book very useful and liked it especially for the really good coverage it includes on Graphics topics. (There seem to be very few .NET books around that include comprehensive help on GDI+ and Graphics in the way this one does.)
This is a "programmer To programmer" level book and therefore isn't a book for complete novices. However there is plenty of explanation and reinforcement of key points .
In the tables which give details of classes, methods, etc. the author has inserted a lot of his own comments, help and insight into the Purpose or Description cells. By that I mean that the pages of tables don't just consist of material that was copy/pasted from the MSDN documentation - something I have seen other authors do.
I would have liked new features in VB 2005 to have been highlighted as "New in 2005" but that's because I was already familiar with VB.NET 2003.

As well as the four main sections:
Visual Studio IDE
Object Oriented Programming
Graphics
Interacting With The Environment
there is a set of 18 appendices containing a wide variety of useful lookup info.
Overall this is a good Programmer to Programmer level book which has plenty of code samples and clear narrative. If you want a primer on Graphics in VB.NET, I think that this book is worth the price for that Part alone.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference Book, 22 Jun 2006
By G. Wilkins (UK) - See all my reviews
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Brought this book as i wanted a good reference book containing overviews of the main subjects within VB2005.

Found this book to be superb in this respect. It is well structured and manages to cover a lot of areas with remarkable detail in places. Would recommend this book as a very good desktop reference to any one using Visual Basic .Net
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1.0 out of 5 stars I don't understand the 5 star ratings, 6 Oct 2007
I thought this book was pretty awful, it seems to have been written for VB6 and simply migrated without reviewing the new IDE. I didn't like the layout, the code examples, or the general approach of the book. Since buying it I have hardly used it, preferring titles from O'Reilly and Microsoft by some distance.
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