Programming VB .NET: A Guide For Experienced Programmers

by Jonathan Morrison, Gary Cornell

Overview

In Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers, authors Gary Cornell and Jonathan Morrison carefully explain the exciting features of Visual Basic .NET. Since VB .NET is, for all practical purposes, a whole new language even for the most experienced Visual Basic programmers, developers need to think differently about many familiar topics. Cornell and Morrison are there to help you with careful discussions of each topic.

Cornell and Morrison write from the point of view of the experienced programmer, with constant references to the changes from earlier versions of VB. Developers learn how to use VB .NET for database programming through ADO.NET and web programming through ASP.NET. After reading Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers, developers will have a firm grasp of the exciting VB .NET language and its uses in creating powerful .NET applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893115996
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	10/09/2001
Series:	.Net Developer
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	7.52(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Morrison has written several books on C++ and Visual Basic programming, and has over seven years of experience developing applications in Visual Basic, C++, and Java. He has consulted for Racal Datacom, The Maxim Group, and Cyberguard, and has held lead development positions at AIG, Autonation USA, and Digitalbond Inc. He currently works for Microsoft's Solution Integration Engineering Team, where he helps Microsoft's enterprise customers design, develop, and debug their large-scale applications.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 The VB .NET IDE: Visual Studio .NET.- 3 Expressions, Operators, and Control Flow.- 4 Classes and Objects (with a Short Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming).- 5 Inheritance and Interfaces.- 6 Event Handling and Delegates.- 7 Error Handling the VB .NET Way: Living with Exceptions.- 8 Windows Forms, Drawing, and Printing.- 9 Input/Output.- 10 Multithreading.- 11 A Brief Introduction to Database Access with VB .NET.- 12 A Brief Overview of ASP .NET.- 13 .NET Assemblies, Deployment, and COM Interop.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"Gary Cornell and Jonathan Morrison carefully explain the exciting new features of Visual Basic .NET. Since VB .NET is, for all practical purposes, a whole new language even for the most experienced Visual Basic programmers, developers need to think differently about many familiar topics. Cornell and Morrison are there to help you with careful discussions of each topic." (HardCopy, Issue February-March, 2002)

From the Publisher

The Barnes & Noble Review
Don't underestimate how new a language VB.NET really is. (Doubt it? See the list of changes at msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/vb6tovbdotnet.htm -- changes that led one VB superstar to rechristen the language "Visual Fred." Then, take a deep breath -- and get Programming VB.NET.

VB.NET may "look" like Basic, but the semantics more closely resemble Java or C#. Given that, Gary Cornell and Jonathan Morrison are the perfect team to write this book. Cornell coauthored the megamonster Core Java, which has helped more experienced VB programmers move to Java than any other book. Morrison wrote the enormously popular C++ for Visual Basic Developers. Nobody understands more clearly what VB developers will need to learn in order to migrate.

Programming VB.NET starts by reviewing VB.NET's fundamentals from the VB developer's viewpoint: its relationship with .NET; its IDE; and its uncompromising object-orientation. The second half of the book moves on to the capabilities that make the transition to VB.NET worthwhile -- including WebForms and ASP.NET, which will make it far easier to deliver web apps and services. Now's the time to learn this stuff, and this is the book to learn it from. (Bill Camarda)

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer with nearly 20 years' experience in helping technology companies deploy and market advanced software, computing, and networking products and services. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.

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