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EBooks » Visual Basic
Appropriate for both Visual Basic 6 and .NET developers, this book outlines the language and productivity enhancements in Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2005, its tools for building datacentric applications, new controls for building user interfaces, new classes in the .NET framework library, and improvements to expect in ASP.NET 2.0. The authors of the eight chapters develop training courses for new Microsoft technologies.   Microsoft Visual Basic programming in Office provides an environment
and language for you to build custom programs that extend Office's
capabilities and integrate Office with other software applications and
business processes. To help you develop custom programs with Office,
this book provides information for the following types of developers:
The beginning developer familiar with Office but not with Visual Basic
programming; the experienced Visual Basic developer who wants to
understand the services and objects provided by Office; and the
experienced Office developer who needs a reference to the new
programming functionality provided by Office 2000, including the new
COM add-in and event model. Among other things, this book describes
how to do the following in any Office 2000 Professional application
through Visual Basic programming: insert and manipulate content such as
text, tables, shapes, and cells; retrieve and set the window selection;
create and manipulate documents; start one application from another;
manipulate menus and toolbars; set up event procedures; and develop COM
add-ins so that you can redistribute solutions to your customers.
 Special Edition Using Visual Basic 6 is organized to serve as an easy
to use reference. Individual topics and material are organized so they
are easy to locate and read. Special Edition Using Visual Basic 6 also
teaches Visual Basic in a straightforward manner. It is assumed that
the reader is new to Visual Basic. The book will teach programming with
Visual Basic in a steady, consistent pace. After teaching the reader
the Visual Basic programming language, the book progresses into more
advanced topics. Such hot topics include creating ActiveX controls,
using Visual Basic with Active Server Pages, VB database programming,
and more. Because of its straightforward approach, Special Edition
Using Visual Basic 6 covers more topics in more detail than
equivalently sized books. New: This new edition incorporates changes to
Visual Basic 6. Additionally, the authors are adding additional
hands-on examples throughout the book, making it even easier to learn
the topics within Visual Basic.
What a great book - there are so many insightful
chapters covering such a wealth of information that you would think
that it wouldn't cover it deep enough. But no - you discover things
that you can't find online - clearly the authors have contacts within
Microsoft - it's obvious from the foreword. Even from only reading a
few chapters, I was able to put together a robust database system with
a VB.net and ASP.net front end using web services.  In the authors' words, "Our main aim in writing this book is to write
the most advanced book yet available" on Microsoft Visual Basic.
Written from the perspective of the professional Visual Basic
developer, ADVANCED MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC, 2ND EDITION explores all
the possibilities open to a developer using Visual Basic as his or her
primary client/server development tool. New to this edition is material
on new data access technologies, accessibility issues for the
physically challenged, increased support for IIS, BackOffice(r) and
mixed language programming, and enterprise support for server side
objects, such as the component gallery and Microsoft Transaction
Server. The accompanying CD-ROM contains sample code and valuable
utilities developed and tested by the authors, The Mandelbrot Set. |
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