TITLE : Accelerated VB 2005 (Accelerated) (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Guy Fouché (Author), Trey Nash (Author)
PUBLISHER : Apress publisher
ISBN : 1590598016
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : March 22, 2007
LANGUAGE : English

Accelerated VB 2005 provides the fastest path to VB expertise for anyone already
familiar with object-oriented programming. While books introduce VB, very few
also explain optimizing its use with the .NET common language runtime (CLR). But
this book both teaches core VB language concepts and covers in depth the concepts
and techniques for professionally exploiting the power of VB and the CLR.

You’ll quickly master VB syntax while learning how the CLR simplifies many
programming tasks. You’ll also learn best practices that ensure your code
will be efficient, reusable, and robust. Why spend many months or years
discovering the best ways to design and code VB, when this book will show
you how to do things the right way, right from the start?

* You’ll quickly gain thorough understanding of VB 2005.
* This book covers the all new features of VB 2005.
* Authors Guy Fouché and Trey Nash describe and explain VB best practices.
* The book presents canonical forms for VB classes

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TITLE : Visual Basic 2005 with .NET 3.0 Programmer’s Reference (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Rod Stephens (Author)
PUBLISHER : Wrox publisher
ISBN : 0470137053
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : May 14, 2007
LANGUAGE : English

Visual Basic® 2005 with .NET 3.0 Programmer’s Reference With this
completely up-to-date tutorial and reference, you’ll quickly learn how
to develop Visual Basic (VB) programs that leverage the latest features
of Vista and .NET 3.0. The tutorial section walks you through VB.NET
from scratch, providing you with in-depth descriptions of the
development environment, basic program syntax, and standard controls.
You’ll also explore the fundamental concepts in object-oriented
programming with VB. In the comprehensive reference section, you’ll find
out how to take advantage of specific VB features. Expert Rod Stephens
shows you how to draw images, use GDI+ routines, and generate printed
output. You’ll also discover how to build an application that interacts
with its environment, save and load data in external sources, and use
standard dialog controls. This approach makes it easier than ever to
learn this powerful language and create your own dynamic programs. What
you will learn from this book:

* The best methods for mastering the new features of VB.NET
*

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TITLE : Visual Basic 2005 Instant Results (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Thearon Willis (Author)
PUBLISHER : Wrox publisher
ISBN : 0470118717
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : June 25, 2007
LANGUAGE : English

- Visual Basic, one of the most popular programming languages today
with more than 6 million developers, has released the 2005 version,
which continues to expand on the functionality and flexibility of its
framework-.NET 3.0
- Covering Visual Basic .NET 2005 programming in a Windows environment
as well as accessing SQL Server Express 2005 and Web Services, this book
allows intermediate-level programmers to get up to speed quickly with
complete sample projects that can be modified and used in the real world
- In addition to the ready-to-use projects for their own applications
with little or no modifications, programmers will also learn some of the
more advanced features of Windows programming
- Some of the featured projects include desktop weather, password
keeper, application registry manager, event log and trace writing, event
log service, multi-threaded note pad, note pad printing, and custom
controls textbox

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TITLE : Professional VB 2005 with .NET 3.0 (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Bill Evjen (Author), Billy Hollis (Author), Bill Sheldon (Author),
Kent Sharkey (Author), Tim McCarthy (Author)
PUBLISHER : Wrox publisher
ISBN : 0470124709
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : June 05, 2007
LANGUAGE : English

* This comprehensive book offers readers everything they need to make
the transition to the newest version of the world’s most popular
programming language

Professional VB 2005 with .NET 3.0 (Programmer to
* Coverage provides detailed information on how to use VB 2005 in the
ever-expanding .NET world using both essential explanations of the
topics and key code demonstrations
* Shows developers how to build everything from traditional console
applications to ASP.NET applications and XML Web Services so they can
take their abilities to new levels
* Addresses such issues as security, data access (ADO.NET), and the
latest Visual Studio .NET IDE, as well as in-depth coverage of the .NET
3.0 Framework
* Discusses CLR (Common Language Runtime), variables and data types,
object syntax introduction, inheritance and interfaces, applying objects
and components, and error handling and debugging

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