"Beginning VB 2008: From Novice to Professional"

eBook Name: Beginning VB 2008: From Novice to Professional
eBook Type: Visual Basic

Visual Basic 5, 6, VB, Basic

This book is for anyone who wants to write good Visual Basic 2008 code � even if you have never programmed before.

Writing good code can be a challenge, there are so many options, especially in a language like Visual Basic. If you want to really get the best from a programming language you need to knowwhich features work best in which situations and understand their strengths and weaknesses.

It is this understanding that makes the difference between coding and coding well.

Beginning Visual Basic 2008 has been written to teach you how to use the Visual Basic programming language to solve problems.

From the earliest chapters, and from the first introductory concepts, you'll be looking at real- world programming challenges and learning how Visual Basic can be used to overcome them.

As you progress through the book the problems become more involved and interesting while the solutions become correspondingly more complex and powerful as Visual Basic features interact to achieve the results that you want.

By the time you've finished reading this book and worked through the sample exercises, you'll be a confident and very competent Visual Basic programmer.

You will still have many explorations of the .NET Framework API to look forward to in your future career, but you will have a firm foundation to build from and you will know exactly where to go to find the things that you need to progress confidently in your projects.

Contents at a Glance:

CHAPTER 1 Ready, Steady, Go!
CHAPTER 2 Learning About .NET Number and Value Types
CHAPTER 3 Learning About String Manipulations
CHAPTER 4 Learning About Data Structures, Decisions, and Loops
CHAPTER 5 Learning About Visual Basic Exception Handling
CHAPTER 6 Learning the Basics of Object-Oriented Programming
CHAPTER 7 Learning About Components and Class Hierarchies
CHAPTER 8 Learning About Component-Oriented Architecture
CHAPTER 9 Learning About Lists, Delegates, and Lambda Expressions
CHAPTER 10 Learning About Persistence
CHAPTER 11 Learning About .NET Generics
CHAPTER 12 Learning About Application Configuration and Dynamic Loading
CHAPTER 13 Learning About Multithreading
CHAPTER 14 Learning About Relational Database Data
CHAPTER 15 Learning About LINQ
CHAPTER 16 Learning About Other Visual Basic Techniques