Visual Basic.NET Weekend Crash Course (With CD-ROM) [Paperback]

Richard Mansfield (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0764548247 | ISBN-13: 978-0764548246

Learn Visual Basic .NET fast! With Visual Basic .NET Weekend Crash Course, you can get up to speed on designing and developing programs with the newest version of the world's most popular programming language -- in a single weekend!

Visual Basic .NET Weekend Crash Course will have VB .NET would-be programmers coding in fifteen hours. Veteran author Richard Mansfield guides you through the Visual Basic .NET language and tools and enables you to create next-generation applications for the Microsoft.NET Platform. People who want to learn Visual Basic .NET quickly and people who know 'traditional' Visual Basic benefit from Richard's expert coverage of topics that include: The new Visual Basic.NET IDE; Labels, Buttons, Boxes, and Dialogs; Images, Pictures, and Shapes; Procedures, Variables, and Scope; Comparison, Math, and Logical operators; Arrays, Looping, and Branching; Bug fixing; Designing, building, and accessing ADO+ databases; Classes and Objects.

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From the Back Cover

Get Up to Speed on Visual Basic .NET-in a Weekend! The big day is Monday. The day you get to show off what you know about Visual Basic .NET. The problem is, you're not really up to speed. Maybe you're new to the .NET Framework. Or maybe you just like a challenge. In any event, we've got a solution for you-Visual Basic .NET Weekend Crash Course. Open the book Friday evening and on Sunday afternoon, after completing 30 fast, focused sessions, you'll be able to jump right in and start programming. It's as simple as that. The Curriculum Friday Evening: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
* Introducing Visual Basic .NET
* A Tour of the Editor
* Talk to Your User: Creating an Interface
* Writing Your First Code
Saturday Morning: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
* Fleshing Out Your First Application
* Easy Choices: RadioButtons, CheckBoxes, and Simple Dialogs
* Working with TextBoxes and Their Properties
* Labels, ListBoxes, and ComboBoxes
* All About Graphics: Adding Pictures to Your Projects
* Using the New Menu Editor
Afternoon: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
* Talking to the User with Dialog Boxes
* Using the Dialog Controls
* Making the Most of Procedures
* Understanding Variables and Scope
* Understanding VB .NET's Built-In Functions
* The Big Operators: Comparison, Math, and Logical
Evening: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
* Arrays and Looping
* Making Decisions (Branching)
* Using Timers and Object Collections
* Tracking Down Bugs (and Smashing Them Dead)
Sunday Morning: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
* Building a User Interface
* Creating a Primary Form
* Creating DataSets
* Continuing Your DataSet Project
* Completing the Personal Database Manager
* Working with Database Wizards
Afternoon: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
* Attaching a Database to a Web Page
* All About ASP.NET: Internet Conversion
* WebForms: Writing VB .NET Applications that Run on the Internet
* Understanding Classes and Objects
For more information on Hungry Minds, go to www.hungryminds.com CD-ROM Includes:
* All Source code from the book
* Assessment software to help gauge your progress
* Huge bonus appendix filled with Visual Basic .NET example code not found in the book
System Requirements:
* PC running Windows 2000 or later. See inside for complete system requirements.

About the Author

About the Author Richard Mansfield (High Point, NC) is an author and programmer whose recent titles include Visual Basic .NET ASP.NET Programming and Visual Basic .NET Database Programming For Dummies. While editor of Compute! magazine from 1981 through 1987, he wrote hundreds of magazine articles and two columns. From 1987 to 1991, Richard was editorial director and partner in Signal Research. He began writing books full-time in 1991 and has written 27 computer books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 404 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (December 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764548247
• ISBN-13: 978-0764548246
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #748,594 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this book!!!, August 17, 2004

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Duckie - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visual Basic.NET Weekend Crash Course (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

I bought this book elsewhere for full price. What a mistake that was.

Everything started out fine until I got to lesson 6. The code in the book does not work at ALL- there was also a slight difference in the coding too. What I did not realize was that THIS book was written in 2002. After doing a quick search online and reading the reviews here on Amazon I find out that the book's examples are geared to the BETA version of NET not the RETAIL (Final) version!(and that others had the same hair pulling grievances as me on Lesson 6) Course that's going to make a difference. It would have been nice if there was some mention of this in the beginning chapters of the book or at least have the remaining copies out there pulled off the shelves. I will probably keep the book anyway for reference purposes.

I also did not like how the author kept putting his own coding style in there. It is not the best in the world- Yes people do have thier own style but his is confusing to leave the default names! Guess I'll wait til my online course in September.

Word to the wise: Check the publication date on ALL computer books before purchasing for full price!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't get any weekend crash courses, March 7, 2003

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J. Ronk (Cordova, Tennessee United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Visual Basic.NET Weekend Crash Course (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

I have tried two weekend crash courses. Their concepts are good but unfortunately both were written against beta versions of software it was supposed to teach about. I have actually corresponded via email with the author of Visual Basic .NET Weekend Crash Course and he admited as much. I understand he wanted to have a book ready to go when Visual Basic went from beta to production however he did not check the book against the official released version of VB.NET so it has turned out ot be a lousy book and a waste of my money.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Can't decide who his reader is, May 9, 2006

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Sue Johnson (Mason Neck, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visual Basic.NET Weekend Crash Course (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

My gripe with the book is he can't decide who his reader is. Quite a bit of the time he is writing to the VB programmer moving up to VB.Net. Other times he is writing to the very beginner, going over very basic programming concepts anyone who has done any programming would know (what is a variable?). And at other times, he assumes you know concepts of VB, that the programmer who has never used VB is not familiar with. And he doesn't get into object oriented programming concepts until the last Chapter, and not much then.