Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bill Sempf
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 152470
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Onl
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 0470182385
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768
EAN: 9780470182383
ASIN: 0470182385
Publication Date: March 31, 2008
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Product Description
Visual Basic is a favorite programming language, so if you’re new to programming, it’s a great place to start. Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies is the fun and easy way to begin creating applications right away while you get the hang of using the Visual Studio environment. Soon you’ll be building all sorts of useful stuff with VB 2008! This step-by-step guide walks you through a logical series of tasks that build your skills as you get comfortable with .Net terminology, theory, tools, and design principles. You’ll learn how to build an application in four different architectural styles, and you’ll find out how to make your programs validate input and output, make decisions, and protect themselves from security threats. Discover how to: - Install the Visual Studio environment
- Write a VB program
- Use Web forms, Windows forms, and Web services
- Establish good programming practices
- Create class libraries
- Write secure applications
- Debug your applications
- Work with strings and “if-then” statements
- Iterate with counted and nested loops
- Pass arguments and get return values
- Access data with VB.NET
- Work with the file system using VB
You’ll also find great tips for working with the VB user interface, using VB.NET in C# programming, troubleshooting your VB programs, taking your programming to the next level, and more! Once you get your hands on Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies, you’ll be programming like a genius in no time!
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 Nothing to review June 4, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
If I received my order (14 May 2008) I would be able to post a review - but as of 4 June 2008 nothing! ETA 19 May 2008.
 Get a jump on programming in Visual-Basic 2008! May 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is designed to get you going quickly in Microsoft Visual Basic 2008. It's not a reference, it's probably not for the complete beginner, and true dummies probably won't be up to this level. Rather it is an entertaining tour for those with some modest programming experience on how to get going quickly in VB 2008. If you are a self-starter, this is the book for you!
The author packs the book full of useful "how to's." Rather than trying to answer every question you could possibly ask about VB 2008, the author focuses on the most essential tools you will need. Once you get the basic idea of how a given tool or approach works from the book, you have what you need to apply these tools and/or approaches to other problems you encounter in VB 2008.
Don't cripple yourself May 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Try as hard as I can, I cannot find anything positive to say about this "book". Don't be fooled by the table of content, it might sound "juicy" but it's as illusory as a politicians promises ... There 's no substance in this text, and the whole teaching strategy is flawed. If you begin your programming journey here you will probably conclude programming is not an art, an intellectual challenge, or an intriguing game, but a boring routine to help visual studio write boring useless applications. You might have heard Edsger Dijkstra quote:
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." This might not be necessarily true for VB.NET, but it will if you start your study with this text.
Spend your money on a real VB book May 12, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am sure there is some worthwhile information between the covers of this book - I just couldn't find it. I would recommend to people that have the basics already, spend your money on a real VB book.
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