Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET Web Programming in 21 Days [Paperback]

Peter Aitken (Author), Phil Syme (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672322366 | ISBN-13: 978-0672322365 | Publication Date: December 17, 2001 | Edition: 1

Visual Basic .NET will integrate state of the art programming language features, including inheritance, polymorphism, and garbage collection. The book will explain these key concepts in a simple and practical way. Web Forms and Web Controls usher in an elegant way to make dynamic web pages. The book will cover these topics with how-to code examples and projects. One of the newest developments in Internet programming is the use of XML and the SOAP communication protocol. .NET Web Services harness these two technologies, and will be covered in some of the later sections of the book.

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Visual Basic.NET will integrate state of the art programming language features, including inheritance, polymorphism, and garbage collection. The book will explain these key concepts in a simple and practical way.* Web Forms and Web Controls usher in an elegant way to make dynamic web pages. The book will cover these topics with how-to code examples and projects.*

One of the newest developments in Internet programming is the use of XML and the SOAP communication protocol. .NET Web Services harness these two technologies, and will be covered in later sections of the book.

About the Author

Peter Aitken has been writing about computers and programming for more than 10 years, with some 30 books and more than 1.5 million copies in print as well as hundreds of magazine and trade publication articles. His book titles include Sams Teach Yourself Internet Programming With Visual Basic in 21 Days and Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days. A regular contributor to Office Pro magazine and the DevX Web site, Peter is the proprietor of PGA Consulting, providing custom application and Internet development to business, academia, and government since 1994. You can reach him at [e-mail].

Philip Syme has been writing applications with C++ and Visual Basic since the release of Windows 3.1. He has helped create several enterprise scale projects developed for Fortune 500 companies that use Microsoft technologies. Phil has also coauthored articles published in IEEE symposiums. Phil lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and can be reached at [e-mail].

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (December 17, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672322366
• ISBN-13: 978-0672322365
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,963,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, May 21, 2002

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Dale Drechsler (Elizabeth Park, SA Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET Web Programming in 21 Days (Paperback)

This book really has it all in a nutshell...excellent dataset and ADO .NET content, session vars etc etc you name it, it generally covers it. It doesnt go into everything as deep as you would like, so its not gong to be the only book you buy, but for starting off it's an excellent launching point into VB .NET that I would thoroughly recommend.
One note..this book doesnt really cover VB .NET syntax, ie for loops, OO concepts and the like. It does however conatin alot of information about creating web based VB .NET apps, just as the title implies.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not really a book for VB.NET web programming., March 10, 2004

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Pinoy in NJ "arprince" (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET Web Programming in 21 Days (Paperback)

If you are new to VB.NET web programming and want to learn it, look somewhere else. The book gives more of an overview of the .NET framework and less actual VB.NET web programming.

Part of Page 11 Paragraph 1 of the book states it best:

"At least 90% of the material you need to learn is related to the .NET Framework, not to Visual Basic. We therefore don't try to teach Visual Basic, but assume you have at least a fundamental knowledge of the language."

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dosen't measure up to SAMS standard., November 26, 2002

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Mr Bocelli (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET Web Programming in 21 Days (Paperback)

This book tries to please both the beginner and the experienced programmer coming from VB6, however it does a below average task of both.

The task of explaining .NET and how to fully utilize VB .NET is not a task for one book, and this book does not claim to do this, instead it jumps back and forth between subjects and forgets some very important topics that are not even mentioned?

I must say I'm sorry I bought this books, and I have bought SAMS books before that are of much higher quality! This is nothing that will discourage me from buying SAMS other titles, but I would look elsewhere for a VB.NET introduction.