Product Description

Here’s official documentation for the Visual Basic® .NET language, including descriptions of all language elements from A to Z. This LANGUAGE REFERENCE is taken from the electronic product documentation for Visual Basic .NET. In its printed form, this material is portable, easy to use, and easy to browse—a comprehensive alternative to the substantial online help system in Visual Basic .NET Standard software. Get the details you need on language and run-time elements, including: • Attributes • Constants and enumerations • Data types • Directives • Functions • Keywords • Methods • Objects • Operators • Properties • Statements

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #578100 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 515 pages

From the Author
Gives software developers the information they need about the next-generation version of Microsoft Visual Basic in a quick, easy-to-use format. Provides a comprehensive alternative to the substantial online help system in Visual Basic .NET. Contains information about Visual Basic .NET constants, data types, directives, functions, keywords, methods, objects, operators, properties, statements, error messages, and more.

Customer Reviews

Well its a Language Reference What do you expect
When ever you get a Language Reference from microsoft press you get a complete alphabetical listing of all the Attributes, Constants, Enumerations, Data Types, properties, methods, Etc
and this is no exeption. not for learning great for a quick look up when your coding and need to know what an obcure function does

A reference-quality Reference Manual
I wholly agree with Mark Broadhurst's review: "its a Language Reference What do you expect"

It's an excellent reference manual, covering the smallest details of the language syntax in a manner that makes clear sense to the professional, familiar with the general language syntax, but needing exact detailed specifications at their fingertips. Great for the professional developer.

As a teacher, I use this in conjunction with a number of "lighter" texts, including the Microsoft Step-by-step and Quickstart guides, which I encourage my students to use. Occasionally I will suggest that a student checks the language reference to answer a question of syntax. More often, I find it invaluable to help find the precise syntax of a command quickly when debugging.

Programming or teaching, this is a "must have" - and a bargain at the price.