Learning Visual Basic .NET

By Jesse Liberty
October 2002
Pages: 320
ISBN 10: 0-596-00386-2 | ISBN 13: 9780596003869
(4) (Average of 2 Customer Reviews)

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Learning Visual Basic .NET is a complete introduction to VB.NET and object-oriented programming. By using hundreds of examples, this book demonstrates how to develop various kinds of applications--including those that work with databases--and web services. Learning Visual Basic .NET will help you build a solid foundation in .NET.
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Most Visual Basic .NET books are written for experienced object-oriented programmers, but many programmers jumping on the .NET bandwagon are coming from non-object-oriented languages, such as Visual Basic 6.0 or from script programming, such as JavaScript. These programmers, and those who are adopting VB.NET as their first programming language, have been out of luck when it comes to finding a high-quality introduction to the language that helps them get started. That's why Jesse Liberty, author of the best-selling books Programming C# and Programming ASP.NET, has written an entry-level guide to Visual Basic .NET. Written in a warm and friendly manner, this book assumes no prior programming experience, and provides an easy introduction to Microsoft's most popular .NET language. Learning Visual Basic .NET is a complete introduction to VB.NET and object-oriented programming. This book will help you build a solid foundation in .NET, and show how to apply your skills by using hundreds of examples to help you become productive quickly. Learning Visual Basic .NET introduces fundamentals like Visual Studio .NET, a tool set for building Windows and Web applications. You'll learn about the syntax and structure of the Visual Basic .NET language, including operators, classes and interfaces, structs, arrays, and strings. Liberty then demonstrates how to develop various kinds of applications--including those that work with databases--and web services. By the time you've finished Learning Visual Basic .NET, you'll be ready to move on to a more advanced programming guide that will help you create large-scale web and Windows applications. Whether you have a little object-oriented programming experience or you are new to programming altogether, Visual Basic .NET will set you firmly on your way to mastering the essentials of the VB.NET language.

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First Edition: October 2002
ISBN: 0-596-00386-2
Pages: 320
Average Customer Reviews: (4) (Based on 2 Reviews)

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According to my friend and professor Malcon Mikami, this book is really the base for who intends to dominate the structures of control, concepts of OOP, and other mechanisms necessary to develop its logic of programming with the Visual beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code. Unhappyly I do not have time enough to learn VB. But, for that not yet they know the .NET, I say to them, exists many possibilities using IDE of the Appearance Studio .NET. It looks for to read books of the O Reilly, are essential in its work, its house, its lessons, at last, are the guide for its abilities of programmer to flow. Penalty, following MM. was valid

Learning Visual Basic .NET Review, July 04 2003

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Submitted by Troy Lohnes [Respond | View]

I found this book to be a good starter and review for the average programmer. If you want to understand the basics of OOP and VB.NET it is a very good start. If you have any C++ or VBA experience I would recommened Programming Visual Basic .NET instead.

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"Reliable O'Reilly continues its efficient trend with this tutorial on the 'next generation' programming language from the Visual Basic family. If you work with the .NET platform at any level, Liberty's clear prose style will give you a beyond-basics introduction to how you put together a large range of object-oriented programming structures."--Bookbytes, Dec 31, 2002

"Jesse Liberty writes like he's an old friend explaining the best way to change the oil in your car--just someone who wants things to go right for you. That makes him the ideal author of a book to introduce beginning programmers to the complexities of something like VB.NET...The genius of Jesse's books is that he has a sixth sense about what you want to see and know about. The most frustrating thing about technical books is that you so often run into little things that make you ask, 'Why is that there?' This is the most frustration-free book you are likely to find."
--Dan Mabbutt, Visual Basic Guide, About.com. Nov 2002

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