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Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Programmer's Cookbook (Pro-Developer) [Paperback]

Matthew MacDonald (Author)
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Pro-Developer July 2, 2003

Next time you hit the wall with a tough Visual Basic .NET problem, get the code behind the solution—and solve it the right way. This PROGRAMMER’S COOKBOOK provides at-a-glance reference to hundreds of Visual Basic .NET programming scenarios using a concise, problem/solution format. The book’s organized so you can quickly zero in on the topics and answers you need—with practical examples, code snippets, best practices, and undocumented secrets that get the job done.

No half-baked solutions. Get expert code from expert developers.

  • Get hundreds of recipes covering every application type—from Microsoft Windows to Web pages, Web services, remote components, and Windows services.
  • Learn when to use lower-level Win32 APIs and COM components vs. the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Discover practical ways to deal with XML data and handle data binding with Microsoft ADO.NET.
  • Build object-oriented components from scratch to access FTP sites, contact POP mail servers, and work with vectors, fractions, and complex numbers.
  • Extend the reach of your Windows applications with WMI and use JavaScript to enhance Web pages.
  • Tackle advanced techniques for multithreading, .NET Remoting, reflection, and cryptography.
  • Uncover free third-party components to read zip files, write PDF documents, show menus in Microsoft ASP.NET, and more.
  • Get all the book’s code recipes on line.


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About the Author

Matthew MacDonald is a developer, author, and educator in all things Visual Basic and .NET. He's worked with Visual Basic and ASP since their initial versions, and written over a dozen books on the subject, including The Book of VB .NET (No Starch Press) and Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly). He has also written Excel 2007:The Missing Manual, Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual, Access 2007:The Missing Manual, and Access 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual, all from O'Reilly. His website is http://www.prosetech.com.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 800 pages
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (July 2, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 073561931X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735619319
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #670,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to p2p@prosetech.com.

 

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Format, Great Content!, July 16, 2003
This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Programmer's Cookbook (Pro-Developer) (Paperback)
Finally, a book with one-stop shopping for VB.NET! I've read several cookbook-style programming titles in the past, and I was pleasantly surprised to find this has much more depth than I expected. It can't cover everything (.NET is huge), but every time I pick the book up I learn something new. There are so many highlights--just browse through the table of contents and you'll see what I mean!

Here are some of my favorites:
* Send keystrokes to another app
* Create a thread-safe control wrapper
* Great data-binding tips (image-to-picture box, etc.)
* Factory, Registry, Singleton, Memento, and Lazy Initialization patterns
* POP3, FTP, and Ping classes in the networking section
* How to change a password into a salted hash for storage in a database
* Use ZIP and PDF files (disclaimer: some third-party code is required, although it's free)
* Manage print jobs that are underway
* Get Windows accounts and roles
* Do hit testing with custom graphics
* Defend against SQL injection
* Dynamically generate an ASP.NET graphic
* Add ASP.NET controls on the fly
* MAPI and MCI (unfortunately, just through the ActiveX controls)
* Upload binary data with a web service
* Use a web service in VB 6

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the negative review, April 25, 2005
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This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Programmer's Cookbook (Pro-Developer) (Paperback)
For a beginner, I think it's best to get two things: A really good introductory book to learn the basics, and then a cookbook that gives code samples for a variety of tasks. Otherwise you'll beat your head against the wall trying to reinvent the wheel, every time you want to perform some common task in code.

For vb.net, I'd recommend Murach's Beginning Visual Basic .Net as the introductory text (even for a non-programmer) and this book as the cookbook. This book is concise but it contains the info you want. Its problem/solution structure makes it easy to find information (much easier than digging through a typical 1,000+ page comprehensive language review). And the selection of topics/code samples is quite useful, covering a variety of common tasks.

If you've learned the very basics but are struggling to write code, take a look at this book.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Solid reference, resource, August 29, 2003
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This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Programmer's Cookbook (Pro-Developer) (Paperback)
I wish I had this book a year ago when I first started developing with .NET! Even though I'm no longer a newbie, I'm already using this book as a one-stop reference. I tested it against other books, and this one gave me the quickest solutions for making thread "wrappers", serializing objects in different ways, and writing a timer-based Windows service (three tasks I had in an average week).

Overall, this cookbook has a little bit of everything, and the dense examples and explanations are so much better than the typical .NET programming book (most are full of fluff and theory). Even experienced developers should find a few new tricks here. For me, the security chapter was the best new material (including how to restrict permissions on dynamically loaded assemblies, encrypt objects, and use XML signatures). The ADO.NET chapter is good, but I would have liked even more. The ASP.NET and web services chapters are also good, but hard-core ASP.NET developers will probably want a dedicated cookbook for this stuff, because many topics are not covered. The early, more basic chapters, were also great--you'll be surprised how useful it is to have a list of the core .NET interfaces (for making objects serializable, convertible, disposable, comparable, etc.) and examples how to implement them. Overall, this is a great book for browsing, reviewing, or just honing your skills.

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