Professional VB.Net - Softcover

Hollis, Billy; Lhotka, Rockford; Case, Richard; Hankinson, Whitney; Sheldon, Bill; Pinnock, Jonathan; Forgey, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861004974 ISBN 13: 9781861004970

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Visual Basic.NET is the next version of Visual Basic and a major part of Microsoft's .NET initiative. Responding to pressure from the VB community, VB.NET is a significant upgrade that is far more flexible and powerful than previous versions. Microsoft have introduced a number of new features, not least a move to full object-oriented programming and greatly enhanced web design facilities.

This comprehensive book takes an in-depth look at the new and enhanced features of VB.NET and provides the professional programmer with the knowledge needed to build real-world applications and fully utilize the power of VB.NET.

This book covers:
An introduction to the .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime (CLR)

Deriving classes from base classes using inheritance

Handling errors with the Try...Catch structure

Developing multi-threaded applications

COM and .NET component interoperability

Accessing data with ADO.NET and XML

Building web applications with Web Forms

Creating custom controls for Windows Forms and Web Forms

Creating and consuming Web Services

About this title

Review:

VB.NET is Microsoft's more powerful and elegant replacement for VB, designed to work with its .NET platform. As Professional VB.NET points out in the introduction, it has basically the same functionality as C# and C++ for .NET, including full OO. It's interesting that it also points out the many problems with VB--problems that used to be glossed over--while enthusing about VB.NET. The improvements though are real, as you'll quickly appreciate.

Professional VB.NET covers the new IDE, CLR, changes to types--including the new Object class--and Namespaces among others. You'll learn the new error-handling methods including Try/Catch/Finally and the creation and deployment of classes and controls, inheritance from controls, composite controls and so on. The OO warnings, with examples, of the dangers involved in inheritance are particularly welcome. Backward compatibility with COM is covered as is running VB.NET code disguised as a COM object. XML, the underlying data storage format--is covered along with Web forms, though Web programming is left to companion volume, Professional ASP.NET.

Professional VB.NET is thorough, with plenty of worked examples, but assumes you're already familiar with VB. Unlike many previous VB.NET titles it's based on release code rather than the beta. With Professional VB.NET working VB programmers can move to VB.NET on the fly. --Steve Patient

From the Publisher:

This book is primarily aimed at experienced Visual Basic developers who want to make the transition to VB.NET. It will also be of benefit to programmers with a good grounding in VB.NET who want to step up to a professional level.

About this edition

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1861004974
• ISBN 13: 9781861004970
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 942