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Key Phrases: personal organizer application, click event handler routine, code snippet library, Visual Basic Express, Try It Out, Private Sub (more...)
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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

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
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.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Was disappointed, June 26, 2006
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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!
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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
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.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Sample Application poorly debugged
I entirely agree with Mercedes. Like Mercedes, I have also done a lot of Access and Excel programming. I also found this book a big disappointment. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Juan Velasquez

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for beginners!!!
I purchased more advanced titles on VB thinking that I could get up and running quickly. Though books such as "Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2005" by Evangelos Petroutsos are... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Gresford Thomas

3.0 out of 5 stars Kind of confusing for a beginner.
I bought this book because of the CD containing the compiler and SQL server since it took too long to download the free version with my dialup connection. Read more
Published on July 5, 2007 by W. Markuly

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book - well worth the money spent
I bought this book to get up and running in Visual Basic 2005 and was not disappointed. The book is well-written by a knowledgable and thoughtful author and is extensive in what... Read more
Published on February 15, 2007 by J. M.

1.0 out of 5 stars None of the project code works
I wasted two days on the book's project code, only to realize that they do not function. After downloading the code from Wrox's website and trying to use that code, it didn't... Read more
Published on October 9, 2006 by Steve Lemaster

5.0 out of 5 stars All stars for the author and the book
I've already been writing some code in VB6 and wanted a basic primer for VB 2005. I chose this book because it's short; a starter kit as the title says. Read more
Published on October 7, 2006 by R. Grimmer

2.0 out of 5 stars And another disappointed!
I have been using VB Script to program ASP and Visual Basic in Access to create databases for two years. I had decided recently to update my skills to ASP. Read more
Published on September 14, 2006 by William G. Witt

3.0 out of 5 stars Beginners beware!!!
Pros:
Probably the most ambitious of the books I have seen for VB 2005 Express. If you can follow along through this, you would have a good idea of its capabilities... Read more
Published on July 11, 2006 by sigmad

2.0 out of 5 stars Also disappointed
Like the last reviewer, I'm not new to programming (I'm just new to PC based languages), and I chose this book for entry into VB 2005. Read more
Published on June 30, 2006 by K. DeLoach

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars All the Way
I am relatively new to VB and programming, and have bought several beginning level books, including Liberty, GhenghisKent, Dummies, and now WROX. Read more
Published on May 6, 2006 by J. Mutchler

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