Visual Basic .NET Black Book

by Steven Holzner (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-1576108352

ISBN-10: 157610835X

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Visual Basic .NET Black Book is a comprehensive reference and problem-solving guide for Visual Basic programmers. It covers Visual Basic .NET tips, examples, and how-to's on everything from programming to managing Visual Basic applications. It provides in-depth material on the new object-oriented features of Visual Basic .NET. Plus readers will learn the crucial Visual Basic tool set in detail including best Visual Basic programming practices, from design tools to flowcharts. Using the popular Black Book format, this book provides in-depth analyses of VB.NET technologies and hundreds of immediate programming solutions making it an invaluable desktop companion.

About the Author

Steven Holzner (Cambridge, MA) is a former contributing editor for PC Magazine and has authored more than 60 books ranging in subject from assembly language to C++. His books have sold over a million copies and have been translated into 15 languages. Steven was on the faculty of Cornell University for 10 years, where he earned his Ph.D., and has also been on the faculty of his undergraduate school, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Coriolis Group (January 15, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1184 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 157610835X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1576108352
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.2 x 2.25 x 9.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #5,278,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #762 in Visual Basic Programming (Books)
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Kendrick Keeton

The disk was broke...

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2010

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The book itself is a great reference tool. The disk that came with the book was broken because whoever mailed it didn't pack it right. When I contacted the seller, they said "sorry" but offered no replacement. Whatever.

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Matthew Ozvat

Great for Beginners to Mid Level Experienced Programmers

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2002

Being a programmer with 3 years experience and developing in VB6.0. I found this book to be a great reference book for me while I began learning VB.NET. I would ask myself while developing.. 'I can develop feature 'x' in VB6.0, so how does VB.NET handle 'x'.. and look it up'
The Black Book doesn't dive into the philosophies of VB.NET, but rather delivers straight forward code examples of how to do it. For grunt programming and experienced VB6.0 developers, I feel this book is a must on every developers book shelf.

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Bob Martin

Good but bloated

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2002

If you deduct from this book everything that you can find in the Help files and a whole lot of unecessary code it would number a few hundred pages instead of the massive 1144 pages that it is.
I am an experienced developer and want something more than a (very good) manual. Perhaps it would suit a beginner better.
An example of code-bloat was a section on adding a data adapter to a form. The author describes a simple drag-and-drop approach but then proceeds to list the code generated behind the scenes - all 10 pages of it. You can see this for yourself on the screen if you have followed the example, and it is not even accompanied by any explanations.
Depsite it's size it wasn't always thorough. I wanted to find out what were acceptable values for the DataSource property of a ListBox but the property was not even shown in the list of 'noteworthy public properties' of the object, nor in the index.
It does however contain a great deal of information on all aspects of VB.NET which makes it useful for a reference book.

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Vladimir Chapranov

Just Great

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2002

Never expected that the book printed before a final release of VB.Net will not have any mistakes. At least after reading and running many examples from the book in VB.Net (final release) I did not meet any problem.
The book is great for both experienced programmers and beginners. ADO.Net chapters are much better, than in any other books I've already read.
I have more than 5 years of VB experience and before this book I was afraid, that VB.Net will take a lot of time to be learnt. After 3 days with this book I'm pretty comfortable with VB.Net

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VB guy

Could be better!

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2002

This book is a OK book. I would buy "Programming visual basic.net (Core References) by Francesco Balena instead of this book. It fails in alot of areas to explain anything! Hey, I have heard good things in the past about the black book series, but don't waste your money on this one!

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Shopper9827

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2014

The book arrived in fine condition

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Jon Valdimarsson

Good

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2002

The book is good for both experienced programmers and beginners. What I was looking well into was the ADO.Net chapters and they are very good.
I have more than 6 years of Delphi experience and this book was good for me to begin with and as reference.

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