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| Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 Kick Start | 
 enlarge | Authors: Duncan Mackenzie, Andy Baron, Erik Porter, Joel Semeniuk
Publisher: Sams
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0672325497
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768
UPC: 752063325490
EAN: 9780672325496
ASIN: 0672325497
Publication Date: December 1, 2003
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Product Description
Visual Basic .NET Kick Start is a rapid-progression tutorial that presents Visual Basic .NET to working programmers already familiar with another programming language or tool. This book speeds through basic concepts and focuses on practical examples showing the advantages of Visual Basic .NET in ASP programming, application design and creation, and .NET Web Services development. Because previous versions of Visual Basic are so prevalent, this book pays special attention to issues developers face when moving from VB to VB.NET. Although Visual Basic .NET Kick Start assumes no knowledge of the .NET Framework, it skips the handholding and basic programming instruction associated with entry-level tutorials. Full of code examples, tips, and professional insights, this book is about maximum payoff with minimum effort for the working programming who wants to use Visual Basic .NET now.
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The news about what's new in VB.NET December 31, 2003
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
As someone whose Visual Basic (VB) experience extends back to early in version 4.0 and who is an object-oriented veteran, when I heard the early news about VB.NET I was certainly more intrigued than I was over versions 5 and 6. The announced changes were certainly welcome from my point of view, as it appeared that some of the more treacherous aspects of VB were being eliminated. However, the initial response to VB.NET was more negative than Microsoft expected, leading to the elimination of some of the proposed changes. With this as a background, when searching for material on VB.NET, my interest was in a book that concentrated primarily on the differences between version 6 and VB.NET. This book does exactly that.
Like all upgrades, some of the changes are only slight to cosmetic. Nevertheless, you must learn them, as they could lead to the VB.NET environment rejecting version 6 code. Examples of this are the interpretation of the "Option" statements and the elimination of default object properties. In version 6, if text1 is a textbox, then an assignment of the form text1="Hello World"
would be a shorthand representation for text1.text="Hello World" and acceptable. However, it cannot be done in VB.NET. Most implicit recasting is now disallowed and some data types are no longer supported.
However, the real differences between the versions are the incorporation of object-oriented principles into the language. Exceptions are now the way in which errors are handled and VB.NET also has inheritance, more explicit event handling, interfaces, constructors and overloading. This new way of doing things can be learned and the descriptions in this book are thorough without overloading you with unnecessary verbiage. Independent of whether you already understand the principles of object-oriented programming or not, if you are making the transition to VB.NET, then you will find the descriptions of value.
Unlike some other books that demonstrate once again how to build simple projects in VB.NET, which shows you almost nothing new, the author of this book has made the conscious and wise decision to show you the differences, which for a VB veteran, is all you really need.
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