Product Description

What is this book about?

In Beginning VB.NET 2003, three expert authors guide you through the basics of building working applications, creating windows and boxes, handling unexpected events, using object–oriented programming, and more. You’ll learn to use menus, toolbars, dialog boxes, and other controls in Windows applications, and how loops and branching structures function in decision–making. You get a thorough overview of object–oriented programming concepts and theory.

After mastering these levels, you’ll be able to explore database programming, look into creating ASP.NET applications for the Web using Web forms, and get a basic introduction to XML. Finally, you can discover how functionality offered online can be integrated seamlessly into your applications with Web services.

What does this book cover?

Here just a few of the things you′ll learn in this book:

• Programming basics, how VB.NET functions, and the principles of the .NET Framework
• How to work with data structures and build and deploy Windows applications
• Object–oriented programming concepts and theory
• Debugging and error–handling techniques
• What you need to know about Web services and .NET remoting
• How to build class libraries, create your own custom controls, and program custom graphics
• Database programming with SQL Server and ADO.NET
• A basic understanding of mobile applications and how to build them

Who is this book for?

This book is for beginning programmers who have chosen VB.NET as their first programming language, and also for programmers who know other languages but are new to .NET programming.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #216509 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 840 pages

From the Publisher
This book is aimed at readers who wish to learn to program using Visual Basic .NET. It assumes you have no prior experience of programming, but moves at a fast enough pace to be interesting if you have programmed in another language.

From the Back Cover
Three expert authors guide you through the basics of building working applications, creating windows and boxes, handling unexpected events, using object–oriented programming, and more. You’ll learn to use menus, toolbars, dialog boxes, and other controls in Windows^® applications, and how loops and branching structures function in decision–making. You will get a thorough overview of object–oriented programming concepts and theory.

After mastering these levels, you’ll be able to explore database programming, look into creating ASP.NET applications for the Web using Web forms, and get a basic introduction to XML. Finally, you can discover how functionality offered online can be integrated seamlessly into your applications with Web services.

What you will learn from this book

• Programming basics, how VB.NET functions, and the principles of the .NET Framework
• How to work with data structures and build and deploy Windows® applications
• Object–oriented programming concepts and theory
• Debugging and error–handling techniques
• What you need to know about Web services and .NET remoting
• How to build class libraries, create your own custom controls, and program custom graphics
• Database programming with SQL Server^® and ADO.NET
• A basic understanding of mobile applications and how to build them

Who this book is for

This book is for beginning programmers who have chosen VB.NET as their first programming language, and also for programmers who know other languages but are new to .NET programming.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

About the Author
Jonathan Crossland, is a co–author of Professional Windows DNA, Professional VB.NET, and Beginning VB.NET. He is currently working at Yokogawa Electric Corporation in the UK, where he is happily involved with the creation of software for the Batch manufacturing industry. Jonathan has been working in and out of various software technologies for eight years now, and spend most of his time in C# and ASP.NET. Jonathan also works with VB, VB.NET, and Web technologies such as JavaScript, DHTML, XML, ASP, and Web Services.

Thearon Willis, currently works as a senior consultant and develops intranet applications using ASP.NET, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, VBScript, VB COM components, and SQL Server. Over the years, Thearon has worked on a variety of systems from mainframe to client–server development.

Richard Blair is a Web application architect specializing in Microsoft Web Technologies, focusing on emerging technology and its impact on business and development. Key areas that he has helped clients evaluate include: streamlining the electronic business process, expanding access to vital information, and creating usable systems. He now works as a Senior Consultant for SEI–Information Technology. Besides his consulting work, he has also co–authored Professional ASP XML, Beginning Visual Basic .NET, and Professional VB.NET.

Customer Reviews

Good for beginners (as it says in the title!)
This book attempts to teach you how to program, using Visual Basic.Net. I think it does a pretty good job of this, however it's not so useful if you are already a programmer/have used VB6. This wouldn't be a problem, only the book claims to be suitable if you 'have some experience with other versions of Visual Basic' - it isn't particularly, with the first half of it being orientated towards teaching concepts such as arrays and how they are used, how to write an algorithm for a program, how to use variables, etc. . . .

If you are new to programming and want to learn VB.Net, buy it, it's a fantastic introduction. If you are an experienced programmer looking to learn VB.Net, I'd recommend you go elsewhere (such as Core VB.Net reference by Balena).

Well structured book for beginners
I'm an experienced VB6 developer, so I skipped large sections of this book. It goes into examples of arrays, variables, conditions - the type of things I don't need to know about. Beginners certainly will find the book well structured with basic examples and clear explanations.
More experienced developers will skip large sections of it and use the examples to highlight differences between VB6 and VB.NET, but it possibly not the best tome for that.
There are a couple of small errors with some of the examples, but the publisher's website provides corrections.

Does what it says on the tin
This is a great book for beginner programmers and intermediate programmers alike. I came from a VB6 world and have used this book it has taught me a lot. I would highly recommend it to anyone wishing to learn VB.NET..