Murach's Visual Basic 2005
by Anne Boehm
25 chapters, 840 pages, 374 illustrations
ISBN-10: 1-890774-38-3; ISBN-13: 978-1-890774-38-7
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"Your Visual Basic .NET is by far the best
book on the market! Had I bought your book first, I
would have saved myself lots of dollars and several
months' time."
Bob
Kaplan, Jr., Louisville, Kentucky
That's what one .NET developer said about the first
edition of our core VB book. Now, this 2005 edition
is even more effective at turning you into a skilled
Visual Basic developer...and at saving you time and
money in the process.
Of course, it teaches you all the language features
that make VB 2005 such an outstanding development tool,
like:
- data sources and data controls for doing database
processing with little or no code
- generics to save casting and restrict collections
to a specific type
- code snippets to save time on repetitive coding
- Intellisense filtering so you can more easily find
and designate often-used coding elements
- ClickOnce deployment once your application is finished
- and more!
But this book also teaches you all of the Visual Basic
features that have carried over from earlier editions
of VB and that you'll use every day in business applications.
Like:
- validating data
- handling numeric, date, and string data
- working with arrays and collections
- handling exceptions
- working with text, binary, and XML files
Here's just some of what's yours in this practical
book:
Get a FAST start
This book assumes you want to be a professional developer.
So it doesn't waste your time with trivial "Hello, World"
applications.
Instead, by the end of the first 3 chapters (section
1), you'll have designed, coded, and debugged your first
business application using the development tools that
are built into Visual Studio. And by the end of section
2, you'll be developing multi-form projects that validate
input data, do repetitive processing using arrays and
collections, manipulate dates and strings, and much
more.
Get 5 full chapters on database processing
Since most business applications require database handling,
this book gives you an entire section (5 chapters) on
the subject.
This section starts by showing you how to use the 2005
data sources feature to develop complete database applications
with a minimum of data access code. Now frankly, you
could stop there. In fact, one of the features of VB
2005 is that it shields you from the ADO.NET details
you had to know in earlier .NET releases.
But if you're going to be a top developer, you'll want
to know what's going on under the surface. So this book
also teaches you how to use ADO.NET to write your own
data access code. Then, it shows you how to use ADO.NET
with the 2005 object data sources feature to create
3-layer applications that take advantage of data binding.
This is powerful stuff that's glossed over in a chapter
or two in other books, but you won't want to miss it.
Get realistic business applications
to use as models for your own work
We've found that the key to mastering a programming
subject like VB lies in the sample applications. So
this book presents complete, non-trivial applications
that illustrate what you need to know on the job.
For example, chapter 17 presents an Order Entry database
application that uses object data sources, business
classes, database classes, and transactions. You won't
find extensive business applications like this in other
VB books, even though studying these types of applications
is the best way to master VB development.
Get the OOP training that other developers
miss out on
Because VB 2005 is an object-oriented language, this
book provides 5 chapters that teach you how your applications
really work. Here, you'll learn about the OOP concepts
and features like inheritance and interfaces that underlie
your code. And in contrast to some other VB books, this
book presents OOP in a way that makes sense in the context
of business applications. In short, you get the kind
of background that makes you a savvy, confident developer.
Get practice exercises to solidify
your skills
The exercises at the end of each chapter let you apply
what you've learned, giving you valuable, hands-on experience.
We provide the starting points for these exercises here
at our site, so you can get the maximum amount of practice
in a minimum of time.
Paired pages make learning a breeze
If you haven't ever used one of our books before, you
may want to download a sample chapter before you buy.
If you do, you'll discover why programmers are so impressed
by our "paired pages" format and why college students
ask their instructors for Murach books. Not only does
this format make learning easier and faster, but it
also makes this the ideal reference book when you're
on the job. |
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