Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005: Learn Visual Basic 2005 as You Design and Develop a Complete Application (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)

?I have never reviewed a book I enjoyed as much as this one. Excellent coverage, perfect for the intended audience. Concise, clear, accurate descriptions. This is a winner.?

       ?Ken Getz, MCW Technologies, LLC

 

Master Visual Basic 2005 by Building a Complete, Production-Quality Application from Start-to-Finish!

 

This book is the fastest, best way for experienced programmers to truly master real-world Visual Basic 2005 development. You won?t just learn syntax and features: you?ll build a complete, robust, data-driven application. You?ll put Visual Basic 2005 to work in solving real business problems, overcoming the practical challenges of building production systems, and you will learn to see Visual Basic 2005 projects as they were intended?as complete, cohesive solutions. Patrick?s engaging style and crystal-clear explanations will help you stay focused, learn fast, and apply what you?ve learned.

 

?    Master every stage of the application lifecycle and every step in the development process

?    Walk through all facets of database design and ADO.NET data access

?    Create advanced Windows applications with Windows Forms and Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0

?    Make the most of classes, inheritance, and other object-oriented Visual Basic 2005 features

?    Effectively utilize data types, generics, error processing, XML, GDI+, and many other language and platform features

?    Learn how to personalize and restrict your application?s features based on user preferences

?    Determine the best way to license, localize, document, deploy, and support your application

 

Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005 is the perfect tutorial for existing Visual Basic programmers moving to Visual Basic 2005, programmers moving from other traditional procedural languages, and experienced Visual Basic .NET/2005 programmers who want to deepen their skills in developing entire projects.

 

Tim Patrick is a software architect and developer with nearly 25 years of experience in designing and building custom software solutions. As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, he spends his days writing Visual Basic 2005 applications. Tim is the author of The Visual Basic Style Guide and The Visual Basic .NET Style Guide, and co-author of Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell and Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook.

 

The companion website (www.awprofessional.com/titles/0321398009) contains the complete software application and source code for the book, plus chapter-specific versions showing each step of the sample project?s construction.  The code was written to work with every edition of Visual Studio 2005, Visual Basic 2005, and SQL Server 2005, including Microsoft?s free Express editions.

 

User review
Outstanding Read
This is the book I have been looking for. I am currently about a third of the way through this book. If you are a beginner with VS2005 (VB2005) this is the book for you. Keep in mind, Some prior vb6 experience won't hurt. Descriptive explanations and in most cases the writer uses real world examples. the book will take you through writing an application as the title says,,,, `Start-To-Finish`




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just okay,,.
This book is good if you have additional reference to read, but you can't rely on this book alone. This is a thick book but could have been thin if not for some topics that are less important. The good thing about this book is the simple approach on parsing XML, and the deployment of the application. Some topics are good as well, but I can't compare this book to Mastering series or some older books like Visual Basic tips and techniques (jamsa) or that of Peter Aitken. Some good reviews are pointing to Jessie Liberty or Matt Macdonald's book, but I still have to check them out.

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a very useful, and well written book; very readable and with enough detail to make it useful but still focused and organized. Little gems of code tricks are spread throughout the book. A very worthwhile book and worth the price.

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Excellent Book!

I am reading Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005 and working through the code chapter by chapter, and I love it. I am getting up to speed on VB 2005 after programming mostly in VBA, and this book is the best dang VB 2005 book I have seen, and I have seen quite a few,,,, Not only is the code quite instructive, but I love Mr. Patrick's refreshing wit--it makes the project fun. Building a complete application from start to finish is a great way to learn Visual Basic 2005. Dry reference books are fine, but this book really puts it all together and makes VB 2005 come alive. Thanks, Tim, for a job well-done!

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Extremely helpful building process, directed at the beginner as it says on the tin. At the end of it I was able to write my own link programmes.