Product Description

Building on the popularity of this book's first edition PRACTICAL STANDARDS FOR MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC the author shows developers and teams migrating to Visual Basic .NET how to save valuable time and resources-and writer faster more manageable programs-

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #668513 in Books
• Brand: Microsoft
• Published on: 2002-07-31
• Platform: No Operating System
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.42 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 458 pages

Customer Reviews

Full Of Good Advice...
...unfortunately most of it has been said before by Steve McConnell in his excellent, unparalleled "Code Complete". That said, Foxall clearly does have some of his own ideas - these can easily be distinguished by their being idiosyncratic to the point of silliness. For instance, the "directive" that a procedure must have only one exit point is followed by an example which uses a liberal sprinkling of (wait for it..) GoTo statements (..aw, you guessed, didn't you?) in order to achieve this dubious goal. The saving grace of this book is the detailed summary towards the end, whereby the dangerous things of the author's little knowledge are distilled out to produce a list of principles for quality programming - all of which unfortunately were dealt with in depth by McConnell in 1995.

it does exactly what it says on the cover....
I've programmed with Visual Basic since version 3, and in moving to VB.Net I found Microsoft had provided very few standards, those they had didn't seem to make much sense. This book clarifies the VB.Net standards issue, (naming conventions for variables, controls, etc), and provides some good programming practice, (with the exception of one or two examples which use 'goto', hence the four stars).

That aside, the standards are tailored for VB.Net developers and include the new features of the language.