The Book of VB.NET: NET Insight for the VB Developer - Softcover

MacDonald, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886411824 ISBN 13: 9781886411821

Publisher: No Starch Press,US, 2002

Synopsis

Built on the Microsoft .NET framework, Visual Basic .NET allows programmers to create everything from full-featured Internet applications to sophisticated Windows programs with the latest eye-catching interfaces. This comprehensive guide is organized into a series of lightning tours and real-world examples, covering web development, XML, databases, and user interface design. Each chapter begins with an overview of changes from Visual Basic 6. The book also includes extra code examples, references to additional online material, and helpful tips about planning, design, and architecture.

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Review

The latest version of Visual Basic is VB.NET, and it's focused like a laser on Microsoft's.NET way of implementing Web Services and other distributed applications. The Book of VB.NET shows how to use the latest version of Visual Basic to satisfy customer requirements of this sort, using.NET capabilities not for their own sake, but as a means of writing better applications that result in happier customers.

However, most of the people who crank up VB.NET aren't so much interested in using.NET as they are in satisfying their customers' requirements. More often than not, these have to do with accessing a database across a network and providing users--probably a couple of different kinds of them--with an attractive, speedy, and easy-to-use client interface.

Designed for people with an understanding of how things used to be done in Visual Basic, some exposure to the .NET excitement, or a combination of the two, this book assumes less background knowledge than you might think. Matthew MacDonald is tremendously careful to introduce concepts (such as three-tier design of applications, custom exceptions, or ActiveX controls) with a combination of code and explanatory text. Combinations like this help ensure that the reader develops a practical understanding of the subjects at hand--a result of entering and compiling samples--as well as an academic understanding of why things are done as they are. He keeps one eye on the practical aspects of everything, as well, so trust his advice if you're designing your first VB.NET applications for customers. --David Wall

Topics covered: The VB.NET way of building software applications, including coverage of user interface design, VB-style object orientation, database access via ADO.NET, flat data files (including XML files), and deployment of distributed applications. The coverage of multithreading is particularly nice.

Edition details

• Publisher: No Starch Press,US
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1886411824
• ISBN 13: 9781886411821
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 465