This text covers core topics like controls, arrays, data structures, GUI components, threading, data structures and OOP. It explains how to utilize the .NET debugger and covers advanced topics like security, deployment, transactions, stateless engineering and multimedia. The book also teaches readers how to create graphics and animation, as well as how to create and implement Web services. There are also tips on migrating legacy Visual Basic projects to Visual Basic.NET.
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The Definitive Resource on Visual Basic .NET
Take full advantage of all the new features of Visual Basic .NET with help from this comprehensive resource. Inside, you'll find in-depth information on the new object-oriented capabilities of Visual Basic .NET and details on the core language, including grammar, control-flow, operators, value-types, classes, interfaces, data structures and collections, delegates, GUI components, threading, and debugging. You'll refer to the extensive details inside this all-inclusive volume regularly as you program with Visual Basic .NET.
- Program against the .NET Framework's common language runtime and managed-execution environment
- Build value types and enumerators for industrial-strength code
- Design and implement class hierarchies with inheritance
- Use interfaces for sophisticated algorithms
- Program with Structured Exception Handling (SEH) to create stable applications
- Implement and deploy arrays, linked lists, trees, and other collections
- Use delegates and proven software industry patterns to create highly reusable and adaptable code
- Program against the .NET event and thread models
- Build enterprise business objects and easy-to-maintain flyweight user interfaces
- Learn how COM and .NET objects interoperate
About the Author
Jeffrey R. Shapiro (Boca Raton, FL) has been a consulting engineer and IT specialist for more than 13 years. He has written several books on software development and technology as well as numerous articles on technology for magazines such as Call Center and Network World. A frequent speaker at technology conferences, such as Software Development, Jeffrey has worked with hundreds of companies such as Microsoft, Novell and IBM, a number of public institutions and several governments. Jeffrey is also the author of SQL Server 2000: The Complete Reference.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A must-have book despite being mis-titled,
By Al-V-s "alvis1515" (Wanamassa, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Visual Basic(r).NET: The Complete Reference (Paperback)
If you really want to know they whys, hows and wherefores of Visual Basic.Net and the .Net framework in general then you should read this book.However, it is not really a reference, like a dictionary. It is a well-written, carefully thought-out explanation of Visual Basic.Net and the .Net framework. There are several chapters on important concepts like delegates, data structures and design patterns and why they are used. You don't see such concise and clear explanations like these in most books. The author does not spend as much time discussing the details of the language or the framework as other books(there are many good books for that out at this point- I liked Programming Microsoft Visual Basic.Net by Franseco Balena). But this book was very important to me to know why- why delegates? why arrays? why structures? why objects? etc. If you want a really good and thorough understanding of this subject then buy this book. You will need another to go over the details or if you need an introduction (or just use the online documentation which is very substantial and has plenty of detailed examples and explanations).
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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By Ed Pustylnikov (Boca Raton, FL, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Visual Basic(r).NET: The Complete Reference (Paperback)
You have to read this book, before you spend thousands on a VB.NET course.I read Mr Shapiro's first VB.NET book in late 2001 and made up my mind that I needed to make the move from VB to VB.NET asap. I am a VB/ASP programmer still struggling with OO design concepts and patterns, and I find his insight into the software development and design process quite remarkable indeed. He writes with a wit and with metaphors I have not seen elsewhere, and made tackling the complex subjects much easier more me. You'll be chuckling at some of the stuff he says. I find it hard to learn from computer books and prefer classrooms, but reading even the first 30 percent of this book, has saved me a bundle in time and money. I am more concerned about code than classes and figured that the new OO in .NET would put me off. But I was especially pleased to see Mr Shapiro tackle stuff like merge sort and quicksort and then place them in context with various .NET "features" like delegates, and interfaces. Incidently, if understanding interfaces and delegates has you scratching your head, this is the only book I found, browsing at the bookstore, that devotes a whole chapter to each subject respectively. At first I thought his notes on why Sun hates delegates would not be much use to me but they go a long way to understanding why .NET has delegates and interfaces and Java only has interfaces. There is also a very comprehensive linked-list example in this book that shows you exactly how to implement interfaces, like IEnumerator, and IList, stuff which very few seem to understand and which are very alien to a VB programmer. No book is perfect. There are a few typos in the text which are clearly last minute changes the publisher forgot to correct. The source code examples compile without issue. I will be looking for his next book for sure.
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Examine the code in the book...,
By Rory S. (Littleton, Co United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Visual Basic(r).NET: The Complete Reference (Paperback)
the first code example doesen't even work!He must have tested it in the beta version because his examples are sloppy, and poorly organized. I would have liked to have seen more code. In some spots his explinations are overly simple. In some spots it seems like he doesn't know what he is even talking about so he just fills in with techno-jargon. Mostly the code is just plain disappointing, what does work, needs to be re-worked so that it is not so buggy, for example, he uses implicit class declarations to demonstrate inheritance, then talks about the importance of strong type declarations. It goes on and on like that. His code on the web is not any better. Don't waste your money, I think that I will get a Wrox book next.
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Visual Basic .NET is a radical departure from the previous version of Visual Basic, the world's most popular programming language. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
injector class, injector objects, language interop, array reference variable, child node types, declaration space, paramarray parameter, debug class, own exception classes, delegate class, directive space, method cohesion, strongly typed collection, sealed class, adapter classes, linked list class, multicast delegate, invocation list, outer class, pertinent members, assert method, default exception handler, catch handler, format provider, pivot value Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
End Sub, Public Sub, Visual Studio, End Function, End Class, End Try, New System, Private Sub, Select Case, End Get End Property, The Complete Reference, Option Strict, Throw New, Sub Main, Member Purpose, Solution Explorer, Protected Friend, Option Explicit, End Get Set, End Interface, New Integer, String Dim, Imports System, Private Function, Public Const New!
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injector class, injector objects, language interop, array reference variable, child node types, declaration space, paramarray parameter, debug class, own exception classes, delegate class, directive space, method cohesion, strongly typed collection, sealed class, adapter classes, linked list class, multicast delegate, invocation list, outer class, pertinent members, assert method, default exception handler, catch handler, format provider, pivot value Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
End Sub, Public Sub, Visual Studio, End Function, End Class, End Try, New System, Private Sub, Select Case, End Get End Property, The Complete Reference, Option Strict, Throw New, Sub Main, Member Purpose, Solution Explorer, Protected Friend, Option Explicit, End Get Set, End Interface, New Integer, String Dim, Imports System, Private Function, Public Const New!
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- Design Patterns by Erich Gamma on 4 pages
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma on page 23, page 300, and page 406
- The Oregon Experiment (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander on page 23
- The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander on page 23
- Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications (2nd Edition) by Grady Booch on page 344
- Windows Server 2003 Bible by Jeffrey R. Shapiro in Front Matter
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