There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects Visual Basic 2005 Demystified fully explains the language and its libraries and applications. You’ll even learn to create a Visual Basic program without writing code. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and even a final exam. Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for advanced students, this is a lively and entertaining brush-up, introductory text, or classroom supplement.
This book fully explains the language and its libraries and applications. Learn how to create a Visual Basic program without writing code. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and even a final exam. Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for advanced students, this is a lively and entertaining brush-up, introductory text, or classroom supplement.
Beginning programmers looking to learn Microsoft's flagship rapid application development language for Windows and the Web will find what they need to know in "Visual Basic 2005 Demystified." Using a friendly, non-intimidating writing style, this book explains the language and its libraries and applications, and how to create a Visual Basic program without writing code.
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Experience the dynamic changes of the next generation of Visual Basic! Best-selling author, Diane Zak takes Microsoft's .NET platform head on with this innovative book for beginning programmers. Unlike other programming titles, this book teaches programming from a task-driven approach rather than a command-driven approach. It includes extensive hands-on, end-of-chapter materials and tutorials. By working through the tutorials, which are each motivated by a realistic case, individuals learn how to use programming applications found in the workplace. Second, the content, organization, and approach of this book exploit the already-familiar, popular Windows environment. Master the latest programming tools with this highly successful book.
This book is an invaluable companion when tackling a wide range of Visual Basic 2005 problems. It meets your need for fast, effective solutions to the difficulties you encounter in your coding projects. The book collates these problems and explains their available solutions. These one-stop solutions have been chosen with professional developers in mind and feature a careful balance of code and text: the code gives you everything you need to solve the problem at hand, while the accompanying text carefully explains how it solves your problem and, more importantly, why it works the way it does.
The new edition of the ultimate comprehensive guide to Microsoft Visual Basic Where most VB books start with beginner level topics, Mastering Visual Basic 2010 vaults you right into intermediate and advanced coverage. From the core of the language and user interface design to developing data-driven applications, this detailed book brings you thoroughly up to speed and features numerous example programs you can use to start building your own apps right away. Covers Visual Basic 2010, part of Microsoft's Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), which includes C#, C++, Visual Web Developer, and ASP.NET, along with Visual Basic Explains topics in the thorough, step-by-step style of all books in the Mastering series, providing you ample instruction, tips, and techniques Helps you build your own applications by supplying sample code you can use to start development Includes review exercises in each chapter to reinforce concepts as you learn All the books in the Sybex Mastering series feature comprehensive and expert coverage of topics you can put to immediate use. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
From the author of the highly acclaimed Book of VB .NET comes this comprehensive introduction to Visual Basic 2005, the newest version of Microsoft’s popular programming language. If you’re a developer who is new to the language, you will learn to use VB 2005 effectively. If you’re from the old school of VB but haven’t yet made the jump to .NET, you will be able to make the transition seamlessly. And you won’t have to wade through boring, unnecessary material before you get there. This guide covers all the necessities, ditching jargon and getting right to the substance of how to: * Implement object-oriented programming with classes, interfaces, and inheritance * Design well-behaved multithreaded applications * Work with XML, file streams, and ADO.NET, the .NET toolkit for relational databases * Build code-driven web pages and rich Windows applications * Deploy your applications with snazzy setup programs Conversational in tone and eminently readable, this book tackles VB 2005’s hot new features and explains how to work with .NET, but it doesn’t water the information down for beginners. After a brief overview of changes from VB 6, you’ll get real-world examples in each chapter that will get you up to speed and ready to perform in the VB 2005 environment. Helpful code examples, references to additional online material, and tips on planning, design, and architecture round out The Book of Visual Basic 2005. Professional developers who need to master VB 2005 will want this book by their side.
Get ready to take your applications to the next level by harnessing all of Visual Basic 2005’s tools for programming, debugging, and refactoring code. In this hands-on book, you’ll get proven techniques for developing even the most complex Visual Basic applications. Expert tips on modeling, user interface design, and testing will help you master the advanced features of this language. You’ll learn how to make writing code more effective so that you can quickly develop and maintain your own amazingly powerful applications.
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.
