Programming Visual Basic 2008

Appendix A. Installing the Software

You are holding more than just a book. You are holding an idea. No wait, that’s what you get when you hold a philosophy book. In this case, what you also get is software—free software. And it’s all found on the publisher’s web site for this book:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518431/

When you download and run the setup program provided on the web site, the following items are added to your system:

• A directory structure with all chapter-specific source code and documentation.

• A “vsi” file that installs a set of Visual Studio Project templates. Each template creates a new project based on “before” or “after” source code images for most chapters in the book. Once you install this file, you will have the option of accessing chapter-specific projects using the File → New Project menu command in Visual Studio.

• A directory of “code snippets” that let you follow along with the action in each chapter’s "Project" section, all without the need to retype every line of code printed in the book.

The installation requires approximately 50 MB of disk space. This appendix discusses the download and installation procedures.

Download the Software

To obtain the software for the book, browse to the book’s web site:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518431/

Locate the Source Code link on this page and click it. When prompted, save the download file to your system using the standard file download features of your browser. You can save the file, named Programming Visual ...