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Visual Basic .NET For Experienced Programmers (Deitel Developer)

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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.

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.

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".

This book is intended for experienced programmers. I enjoy this book because of its wide-spread detailed coverage of all advanced topics in a realistic approach. Apart from that the 559 illustrations and figures help every one to get a clear picture about the concept. The way of presenting the matter in the book is excellent. Nice work!
Using the .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual Basic developers can build robust applications that were very difficult to write in previous versions of Visual Basic. This book provides all the essentials of VB.NET with example-rich practical manner.
In Particular the explanation about Object-oriented Programming concepts, GUI concepts, Multithreading, ADO.NET, ASP.NET and ASP.NET Web Services is outstanding.

The usage of wireless applications is rising rapidly. Within few years, the number of people browsing the Web from wireless devices will exceed the number browsing from desktop computers. This book provides all the details about the Mobile Internet Tool Kit. They introduce mobile Web controls and mobile Web Forms that can be used to create ASP .NET applications that target a wide range of mobile devices. This book also covers device-specific rendering and how to consume a Web service from a mobile Web application.

"Terrific VB.NET book which explores both Technical content and Programming info, by which readers can gain everything to fabricate next generation of .NET Applications."

Key Features of this Book:

1.Realistic, example-rich coverage of: Objects, Structured exception handling, Delegates, Inheritance, Interfaces, Polymorphism and Overloading.
2.Detailed coverage of Mobile Internet Tool Kit.
3.Comprehensive coverage of advanced topics such as Windows Forms, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET Web services, network programming and XML Processing. 4.Featuring 192 Live-code programs and 319 Programming Tips.

This is a rehash of the same Deitel style textbook which I suffered through in school. They were boring, boring boring then, they are boring boring boring now.

You would be much better off buying Gary Cornell's great book from Apress which has a similar title. It's much cheaper, much better written and it's not boring, boring, boring. Unlike the Deitel's, Cornell can teach real programmers with boring them.

The Deitel's seem to have created an industry of writing boring wordy textbooks and now they want to move into the Apress/Microsoft Press/O'Reilly space for books about .NET.

They don't offer anything over the established books that I have praised elsewhere so do yourself a favor and get the Apress book by Cornell. Then get the Balena book from Microsoft Press to learn how to apply .NET and you won't need anything more. With these books you'll learn a lot more and you'll save money to boot over the Deitel book.

It is easy to read. You must keep it on your desk as long as you continue programming in Visual Basic. I have found different programming styles and approaches. Actually I did not finish it yet. It is not easy to read it all in few weeks. It is filled up with knowledge of programming. I can suggest this book to any visual basic programmer. Because They can use this styles and approaches in VB 6.0, 5.0 etc too. Maybe you will learn this knowledge in two years but with this book you will make it very short. Time is money. So go on...