VB.NET: Your Visual Blueprint for Building Versatile Programs on the .NET Framework (With CD-ROM)

Each step in this great guide is displayed with callouts so you can see exactly where the action takes place on the screen. VB.NET functions are thoroughly covered, including designing forms and controls, using multimedia and databases, integrating VB.NET with ASP.NET, and creating server-side Web applications. This book also includes a special appendix about Web and Windows forms reference, ADO.NET, and ASP.NET.

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Broken Promises
Looked promising but the early code examples failed to run as predicted. The book assumes that they will and offers no help when they do not. Several code example failures, no response to emails requesting help, days of frustration and I was off looking for another book.

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Great Intro to Visual Studio and .NET Programming,,.
I am a web developer that wanted to learn how to get into the .NET game. This book was a great start. It quickly helped me learn how to use Visual Studio as well as how to start programming in VB. 70% of the book uses windows forms in the examples, 20% of the book uses web forms, and 10% uses console related examples. Overall, I really like the book and would recommend it to anyone that needed a starting point in .NET and Visual Studio. I only wish that the sections on web based (asp.net) forms were expanded. Unfortunately the asp.net counterpart to this book is written in C# by another author and is no where near as good as this book,,. bummer!

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good for beginners
There is a good book for beginners. Few things to note there are errors cropping up in his later chapters like the windows service installer excercises and asynchronous callback example, the update in edit data in datagrid. The last three chapters were very clumpsily put together in which someone with 7 years of exp cannot put together why they were even there when the explanation and example were of poor quality. Don't get me wrong, this is a very good dummies book, however after finishing the blueprint examples, a vb.net beginner wrox book would be the next book one should go for to fill in the gaps

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Great Book!
Easy and fast introduction to VB .NET - gives you the basics and more in an easily digested manner. I like the visual approach that helps in remembering things and easily create a `mental map` of VB.

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Excellent Approach to VB
I highly recommend this book to any person wanting to learn VB. Richard Bowman did an excellent job keeping things clear and concise. This is a must have for anyone wanting to learn VB. This book is the best I have seen in years.