- Hardcover: 1616 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (May 17 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0735613753
- ISBN-13: 978-0735613751
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 19.6 x 7.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2.5 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (78 customer reviews)
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- #39 in Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Languages & Tools > Basic
- #93 in Books > Computers & Internet > Microsoft > Development > Visual Basic > .Net
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Useful for VB developers of all levels, Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET offers a massive and comprehensive guide to the new VB .NET. While concentrating on "traditional" programming techniques brought up to speed with .NET, this book also covers essential Web development, making it a solid choice for those making the leap from VB 6.
The sheer size of this volume is its obvious distinguishing feature. Weighing in at over 1,600 pages, it's easily one of the largest programming books ever published. The scope of coverage here is wide-ranging and comprehensive. The author first presents a basic language-based tutorial of the new VB .NET, highlighting basic keywords, data types, and new class design features like inheritance, delegates, and events.
Patient, thorough coverage and plenty of short code examples are the guiding principles here. The tour of object-oriented features in VB .NET is among the best that you can find. Coverage of built-in .NET support for strings, math, date/time, and file I/O classes (and the like) will help you master these essential APIs. At many points, the author highlights what's new and different from VB 6. There's plenty of coverage of "traditional" VB applications, including the new Windows Forms, database programming with ADO.NET, and Win32 support including programming the Windows registry, MDI, graphics programming (with GDI+), Windows services, and the like. Later sections look at deploying VB .NET applications in assemblies.
Only in its final sections does this text turn toward ASP.NET and the Internet, with several solid chapters on essential Web Forms and new features like caching, configuration, and basic Web development techniques. By centering on essential VB .NET language features first and then covering a wide spectrum of programming APIs, this book offers a winning choice for anyone with previous VB experience who wants to work effectively with the new VB .NET. With its extremely rich range of topics, all backed up with plenty of code excerpts, this title offers a nearly unbeatable one-volume reference on what's inside the new Visual Basic .NET. --Richard Dragan
Book Description
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
CD+DVD INSIDE!
CD-ROM features:
- A fully searchable electronic copy of PROGRAMMING MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6.0
- Sample applications written in Visual Basic .NET
A Note Regarding the CD or DVD
The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Too much "Look how much I know",
By "max_ireland" (Beaverton, OR United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference) (Hardcover)
No doubt about it; the book is comprehensive; but the problem is that at times the author drifts into the "look how much I know about visual basic" instead of trying to teach the subject matter. It explains items in great detail but obfuscates the point by going into too much detail.I've no doubt that Mr Balena knows VB.net; the problem is that having read his book I dont!
5.0 out of 5 stars
The greatest, in the whole dot-Net panoply.,
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This review is from: Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference) (Hardcover)
Even if I don't use VB Net, I enjoy that book: a "just" view in comparisons between dot-Net and VB6 (not always at 100% in favor of VB.Net), and insight, intelligence, and inner working we don't even see often, if not at all, even in C# books! There are two major weak points: Windows Forms (I recommend Chris Sells' book) and database (I suspect Francesco didn't entirely wrote these chapters, as the style is a little bit different in those chapters than the other parts of the book, anyhow, my impression), again too superficial ( I somehow recommend the MS Press book ADO.NET by Sceppa). Even if I use C#, I often found that Francesco Balena did a much better job than what I find in other of my C# and Managed C++ reference books. NOW, my copy, of the first edition, has indeed a printed page number 1576. So why Amazon annonces 800 pages, I don't know. I would have give only four stars, but since I find very hard to find a book of my liking about dot-Net in general, I cannot than praise that book for an extra star.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book and a very nice author,
By Fred (New York, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference) (Hardcover)
This is an excelent book. It helps me to obtain an in-depth knowledge of VB .Net, given that I am really new to VB. Most important of all, buying this book accidently leads me to a brief contact with the author. He is such a nice person whose attitude and behavior convinces me of his devotion to the readers and his products. You cannot expect a high-quality book from a person who is not so devoted to his work.Since there are already so many comments on the content of the book, I hope my view from a personal perspective can help you choose this book as your gateway into VB .Net.
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