Wrox's Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

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Product Description

The practical, task-oriented approach, along with numerous tips, tricks, and additional techniques, all help to get you up to speed on the most important Visual Basic 2005 concepts and information. In no time, you'll be able to take control of your programming, apply what you've learned in real world scenarios, and get quick results.

What you will learn from this book

• How to install Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and then navigate around the environment
• Various details about the user interface, event programming, and accessing data
• Ways to write proper programming code by creating additional features for your applications
• How Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition makes XML processing, data encryption, and notification dialogs smoother processes

Who this book is for

This book is for first-time programmers who are are ready to begin creating their own customized applications with Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. No prior programming experience is necessary.

Wrox's Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit gives you the software tools you need to get started. It also provides structured tutorials that walk you through all the techniques you need to begin programming right away. The accompanying CD-ROM includes:

• Microsoft(r) Visual Basic 2005(r)Express Edition
• Microsoft(r) MSDN(r)2005 Express Edition
• Microsoft(r) SQL ServerTM 2005 Express Edition

From the Back Cover

The practical, task-oriented approach, along with numerous tips, tricks, and additional techniques, all help to get you up to speed on the most important Visual Basic 2005 concepts and information. In no time, you'll be able to take control of your programming, apply what you've learned in real world scenarios, and get quick results.

What you will learn from this book

• How to install Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and then navigate around the environment
• Various details about the user interface, event programming, and accessing data
• Ways to write proper programming code by creating additional features for your applications
• How Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition makes XML processing, data encryption, and notification dialogs smoother processes

Who this book is for

This book is for first-time programmers who are are ready to begin creating their own customized applications with Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. No prior programming experience is necessary.

Wrox's Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit gives you the software tools you need to get started. It also provides structured tutorials that walk you through all the techniques you need to begin programming right away. The accompanying CD-ROM includes:

• Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
• Microsoft MSDN 2005 Express Edition
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (January 18, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764595733
• ISBN-13: 978-0764595738
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #482,260 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 Finally Understand Programming, February 6, 2006

By	Dwayne Hawthorne - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After trying a few different books, I found this to be a very comprehensive and easy to understand, unlike some others.

It took me step by step through the project and allowed me to create something that actually works and allowed me to understand what I was actually doing.

If your just starting out in programming, I'd recommend you give this book a try. You won't regret it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Was disappointed, June 26, 2006

By	Mercedes (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews

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I'm not brand new to programming, I have done lots of programming in Excel and Access, just never used actual Visual Basic. I bought this book hoping for guideance in VB 2005 Express. The first part of the book is ok, no trouble following the examples, but as the Personal Organizer application/database became more complex, I started to get lost. The code didn't always work, the samples don't work, constant errors that it can't find the database. When in doubt of the code I entered I would copy the authors code and still it wouldn't work. It felt like there were a couple steps missing here and there. This is very frustrating to me. Also, the example code should work when loaded from the disc, when it doesn't it's more frustrating. The SQL section is ok, again seems a bit vague to me. I have since moved onto Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Step by Step by Michael Halvorson and am having no trouble at all, not feeling lost anymore. And the examples actually work!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Like His Approach and His Writing Style, March 12, 2006

By	John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Unlike a lot of books that jump right into programming, the firs thing that I liked about this book was that it took just a few pages to explain where VB came from, why it's a suitable language for a beginner, and so on. After that, it takes the CD included with the book and uses it to load the software you will be using. That way, first, you're not stumbling around the Microsoft web site looking for what you should download, and second, you're working with the same edition of everything that he is using in the illustrations so you're not always making allowances for having something different on your screet.

After that I liked his approach of starting with a simple program (Hello World, what else?) so that you have something running almost immediately. From there you increase your program one step at at a time until you are working with the complete language.

Is the best of all books on VB? I don't know, I haven't read them all. But this is a good one, I happened to like his writing style and the way he presented what I wanted to know. There were a couple of typos I spotted, but they were easy to see as typos and caused me no problems.