Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Step by Step (Microsoft)

Product Details :

Author : Michael Halvorson
Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; Bk&CD-Rom edition (October 5, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN: 0735621314
Product Dimensions: 9.0 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches



Book Description :

Visual Basic 2005 focuses on enabling developers to rapidly build applications, with enhancements across its visual designers, code editor, language, and debugger that help accelerate the development and deployment of robust, elegant applications across the Web, a business group, or an enterprise. Now you can teach yourself the essentials of working with Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 and the new features of the Visual Basic language—one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you’re a beginning programmer or new to this specific language, you’ll understand the core capabilities and fundamental techniques for Visual Basic 2005. Each chapter puts you to work, showing you how, when, and why to use specific features of Visual Basic and guiding as you create actual components and working applications for Microsoft Windows®. You’ll also explore data management and Web-based development topics.

From the Publisher
The popular STEP BY STEP approach provides hands-on guidance to beginning-level programmers and those new to Visual Basic, covering key features and fundamental techniques to accelerate their productivity. The companion CD includes data sets and sample code for all exercises.

Key Book Benefits:

• This immensely popular tutorial for Visual Basic has been fully revised for the newest version of the technology.

• Provides step-by-step guidance on how to use Visual Basic 2005 with Visual Studio 2005 to create smart-client and Web applications.

• Features easy-to-follow, logically planned lessons, with necessary data sets and additional code samples on the CD.

• STEP BY STEP is ideal for anyone with a fundamental understanding of computer programming.

Spotlight Reviews :

Reviewer: bobbyD
After reading "Build A Program Now Using VB 2005 Express Edition", I bought this book in the hopes of getting a lot more detail. I'm happy to say that I got alot more than I expected. Mr. Halvorson did a great job introducing the basic concepts of the language.

As someone who is returning to VB after a 5 year hiatus this book was a perfect fit. I also reccomend viewing the VB training videos at Microsoft's web site. They're FREE and make a great companion to this book.

By the way you don't need the full version of VB 2005 to go through the excercises of this book. I got through 99% of the book using the Express Editions of VB and the Web Developer. From what I remember only the "Inheritence" Form was missing...Good Luck!

Reviewer: Anthony D. Roane "Black Likorice" (Provo, UT)
Being completely new to VB programming this book has been quite helpful in that it explains concepts thouroghly and goes step by step in depth. However, it does get a little redundant even for the beginner after about three or four chapters. The wording that was nice at the beginning to understand concepts becomes burdensome. The book doesn't serve as a good reference to go outside the realm of what the book dictates. But I guess there are other books for that.