by Thearon Willis, Bryan Newsome
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- After a brief introduction to Visual Studio 2005 and the .Net Framework, the expert authors introduce readers to the fundamentals of the Visual Basic 2005 language
- End-of-chapter exercises help readers to quickly learn to build rich and professional-looking applications for Microsoft Windows, intranets and the Internet, and mobile devices
- Offers thorough coverage of the new Visual Studio 2005 tools and features
- Covers object-oriented programming, creating custom controls, working with databases, creating menus, and working with graphics
- Addresses building class libraries, Web services and .NET remoting, and deploying applications
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Good learning guide..., 2008-09-22
I loved the sample and explanations on XML serialization as well as the topic on collections. What I didn't like was the their discussion of objects esp. the example - a CAR. It could have been much helpful if they had stick with the customer and bill classes. Overall, I can recommend this to programmers with experience on other languages, and it would help if you know already the basics of objects, as the discussion on classes will only be on Chapter 10. If you are a novice or VB beginner, I would advise you to buy a second book to support your learning together with this book. A good second book will be an Apress book.If you want a thorough OOP tutorial, buy Daniel Clark's Beginning OOP using Visual Basic 2005.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Excellent book "A must have", 2008-04-10
This book is excellent for beginners; it explains all steps in details.
It is definitively a must have!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
 Not as good as I had hoped, 2007-01-11
I looked this book over pretty well at Borders before buying it from Amazon, but was unpleasantly surprised once I began to read it straight through. Critical information is omitted from some topics. Continuity seems illogical. And the website, though expertly administrated, has a small subscriber base. The book is not very well organized and is carelessly written. For twice the price, the Deitel offering is ten times the tome.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
 How did this book get 5 stars by other reviewers, 2006-07-31
I am a seasoned programmer learning the .NET platform. At first this book seemed okay...the layout was pretty good and I found their presentation methods easy to learn from. Then I started running into some serious coding problems. Their ASP code examples are outdated and riddled with errors. No error errata on the website either to fix anything I saw. I spent more time trying to fix their stuff than I did acutally learning. It would be a good book if it wasn't for all the errors. They desperately need some technical editors... I wouldn't recommend this book at all.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Starts Simple, Goes Complex., Stays Microsoft, 2006-03-26
Visual Basic has now been around for some fifteen years. Through several versions it has progressed to be a fairly complex, fairly powerful language having been extended into the .NET family of languages, database connectivity, web functionality with both HTML and XML.
At 800 pages, this is a large book. It starts quite simply doing a little program where you type in your name and it comes back with a 'Hello' statement. From there it goes step by step to fairly complex programming using Microsoft's ADO.NET interface to talk with SQL Server.
Microsoft has established this programming evironment where everything about the language, the editor you use to program it, the utility routines you call on, the database you access has to be Microsoft product. This book fits into the 100% Microsoft environment. If your database is MySQL, this may not be the way you want to go. On the other hand, Microsoft rules the desktop environment so it may not be a bad idea.
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