Visual Basic .NET For Experienced Programmers (Deitel Developer Series) (Paperback)

~ Harvey M. Deitel (Author), Paul J. Deitel (Author), Cheryl H. Yaeger (Author), Tem R. Nieto (Author)

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In Visual Basic .NET: For Experienced Programmers, a team of world-renowned corporate trainers deliver an advanced guide to Visual Basic .NET specifically focused on the features that give professional developers the greatest power. Harvey and Paul Deitel, whose best-selling textbooks have trained millions of developers worldwide, teach Visual Basic .NET's most powerful features using their unique Live-CodeaA A TM approach: every new concept is presented in the context of a complete, working example, immediately followed by windows showing exactly what the code does. The Deitels demonstrate how to make the most of Visual Basic .NET object-oriented features such as inheritance and polymorphism, then offer expert guidance on building advanced GUIs with Windows Forms. They introduce XML programming with Visual Basic .NET, cover multithreading, and present detailed coverage of files and streams, including a full chapter on networking with streams-based sockets and datagrams. The book includes practical techniques for enhancing database access; building Web applications and Web services; and utilizing .NET's powerful collection classes.

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The experienced programmer's Deitel Live-Code guide to Visual Basic .NET and the powerful Microsoft .NET Framework

Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers is written for programmers with backgrounds in C++, Visual Basic 6, Java or other high-level languages, who want to learn Visual Basic .NET through the intermediate level. If you already own Visual Basic .NET How To Program, 2/e, you should not purchase Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers. However, you may be interested in our ASP .NET with Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers, which will be published in Spring 2003. Students should not purchase Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers. Instead, students should purchase Visual Basic .NET How To Program, 2/e, as it contains self-review exercises and other ancillary materials suitable for self-study and classroom use. We also recommend that everyone consider The Complete Visual Basic .NET Training Course, 2/e, which includes Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e, and the Visual Basic .NET Cyber Classroom--an interactive, multimedia, Windows-based CD-ROM. The Complete Training Course offers a great value and provides a powerful learning tool for readers who want to pursue Visual Basic .NET programming through the intermediate level.

Written for programmers with backgrounds in C++, Visual Basic , Java or other high-level languages, this book applies the Deitels' signature Live-Code approach to teaching programming and explores Microsoft's Visual Basic .NET language in depth. Visual Basic .NET concepts are presented in the context of fully-tested programs, complete with syntax highlighting, detailed line-by-line descriptions and program outputs. The book features 192 Live-Code programs that contain 20,337 lines of proven Visual Basic .NET program code. In addition, the book includes 319 programming tips that help you build applications that are portable, reusable and optimized for performance.

Start with condensed discussions of the Visual Studio .NET IDE, control structures, procedures and arrays. Then move rapidly to more advanced topics, including Windows Forms, ADO .NET, ASP .NET, ASP .NET Web services, network programming and XML processing. Along the way you will enjoy the Deitels' classic treatment of object-based and object-oriented programming. When you are finished, you will have everything you need to build next-generation Windows applications, Web applications and XML Web services.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized IT content-creation and corporate-training organization. Together with their colleagues at Deitel & Associates, Inc., they have written the successful How to Program Series college textbooks that hundreds of thousands of students throughout the world have used to master Visual Basic .NET, C#, C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, XML and other languages.The Deitel Developer Series is designed for practicing programmers. The series presents focused treatments of emerging technologies, including .NET, J2EE, Web services and more. Each book in the series contains the same Live-Code teaching methodology used so successfully in the Deitels' How to Program Series college textbooks. The series includes a broad selection of books suitable for three types of readers:

A Technical Introduction Broad overviews of new technologies for programmers, technical managers and other technical professionals A Programmer's Introduction Focused treatments of programming fundamentals for practicing programmers and for novices For Experienced Programmers Detailed treatments of language topics for experienced programmersDEITEL TESTIMONIALS"It is a typically excellent Deitel work. Chapters 5 - 7 were especially strong and the programs for chapters 9, 10, 13, 17 and 18 were at times breathtaking. Wow! You can actually do THAT with VB!"—James Huddleston

"Thanks for creating an excellent learning and reference tool. I flipped through at least 20 books relating to VB .NET and Deitel exceeded all of them."—Mary Prince

"Your Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition ... contains the perfect balance of theory and practical application."—Sandy Sanford

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1168 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (August 14, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130461318
• ISBN-13: 978-0130461315
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,016,416 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book helps you get up to speed on VB .NET quickly, March 19, 2003

By	TravelTrak "traveltrak" (Rockville, Md United States) - See all my reviews

I recently finished reading Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers by Deitel, Deitel, Nieto, and Yaeger, and found it to be very well written and a great tool to learn Visual Basic .NET. The book covers all the important aspects of Visual Basic .NET (the IDE, object-oriented approach, graphical user interface, multithreading, XML, ADO .NET, ASP .NET and Web services, and the mobile Internet) in approximately 1000 pages - quite a feat. Each chapter contains several entire programs ('Live-code examples') and thorough explanations of the code, to illustrate the concepts covered in the chapter. Some of the sample programs are fun, such as dice, tic tac toe, and blackjack games. The book provides clear explanations of why and how things works (chapters on ASP .NET - chapters 17 and 18 - are especially good at making the complexities make sense). The authors also emphasize the terminology of object-oriented programming (explaining terms such as composition, self-referential classes, and abstract data types).

The only minor complaint I have about the book is that it doesn't provide any programming assignments (except for one small task) for the reader.

Although I haven't read other books on Visual Basic .NET (other than approximtely 100 pages of Balena's Visual Basic .NET Core Reference - which I found tedious), I feel that by reading and studying the Deitel book you will gain a solid base of knowledge about Visual Basic .NET.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Informative but too wordy, February 26, 2006

By	A. Rendar (US) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very informative; discusses many concepts and targets intermediate to advanced programmers. However, too bloated with things like

"When a program opens a file and reads from the file, the program will later have to close the file to allow other programs access the file".

The authors must have never heard of "it", "they", and other time-saving features of the language. This makes it tedious and boring at times. I'm sure better books exist, but they (the books - get it? :) may not be as in-depth or contain as many examples.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars different kind of vb book - ok for beginers too, May 29, 2005

By	Mark Twain? "Mark Twain?" (Mark Twain?) - See all my reviews

Its really not that advanced and does a very thorough review of basic programming concepts.

It does have that wordy textbook feel to it, which makes you wonder what happend to the questions at the end of the chapter. But its thorough and really gives you a good understanding of the VB language if you've never done any VB programming.

Good or bad, it spends most of the first 8 chapters programing in console, no fun GUIs till chapters 9 and 10. Which is a bit odd as most of the VB books I peeked at jump right into the GUI. This may make it boring for those of us who are "visual learners".