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EBooks » Visual Basic
 Mastering Visual Basic .NET is the update to the best-selling Mastering Visual Basic 6, by Evangelos Petroutsos. Because of the enormous changes introduced by .NET, Petroutsos has rewritten his book from the ground up. In contrast to some other large VB.NET books, Petroutsos is the only author of the Mastering. For the reader, the benefit is a unified author voice and continuity in the examples, which is not found in many other big books on VB. And the examples are not trivial. Instead of using simplistic examples to demonstrate isolated points, Petroutsos shows actual applications and ties them together. The book goes into highly specific detail about topics given short shrift in other books. For example, Petroutsos goes beyond showing you how to populate an array; he also shows how to save the array to a disk file. In the printing chapter, he doesn’t just show how to print a few lines of text; he shows how to print a text file (including the logic to break long lines), and how to print tabular data and bitmaps.  Master this massive programming language upgrade that raises Visual Basic functionality to the level of the .NET platform. Coverage includes all core topics—plus security, debugging, and helpful information on migrating existing Visual Basic projects to Visual Basic.NET. Book Info Coverage includes all core topics, plus security, debugging, and helpful information on migrating existing Visual Basic projects to Visual Basic .NET. Softcover. The best recommendation
for this book is the first sentence of the first chapter, "If you have
never written a Visual Basic .NET Web Service before, you are in the
right place." With a nod to tradition, the book starts with "Hello
World" - as a Web Service! Using primarily the wizards and
automatically generated code provided by VB.NET, they demonstrate that
it's only the work of a few minutes to create a service that can be
invoked to return "Hello World" as an XML encoded string using HTTP.
There's a lot of
magic under the covers, but there's also a lot of instant
gratification. To get you launched immediately. By chapter 3, you're
off and running with SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. That's the great thing about
this book. It takes off like a rocket.
In fact, after beginning from a standing start, the book has great
chapters on how to debug and trace Web Services from both the point of
view of the server and the client, security, scalability and
performance, and maintaining state. The material is well written and
presented, but if you don't already have some background in software, a
lot of it might not be completely meaningful. The part of the book that
deals with foundation software technology concludes with a chapter on
the most likely partner for VB.NET in providing Web Services:
Microsoft's SOAP SDK.
Learn how to turn data into solutions with SQL Server 2000, Visual Basic .NET, and XML.
Find out the fastest ways to transform data into potent business
solutions with this definitive guide for developers. You’ll get a
fundamental grasp of SQL Server™ programming techniques for data
access, data manipulation, and data definition with T-SQL, and you’ll
learn how to make the most of the language enhancements in Visual
Basic® .NET, the programming advances in the Microsoft® Visual Studio®
.NET integrated development environment, and the state-of-the-art
technologies of the .NET framework, including ADO.NET, ASP.NET, and XML
Web services. You also get in-depth coverage of SQL Server database
security management, SQL Server Web releases, and features for
interoperability between ADO.NET and XML. If you’re looking for expert
insights on how to build powerful, secure solutions with SQL Server
2000 and Visual Basic .NET, this is the book for you. Coverage includes
these topics:
• XML Web services
• SQL Server 2000 XML functionality
• XML data-processing techniques
• Class, event, and error-processing innovations
• Tables and data types
• Programming data access with T-SQL
• Programming views and stored procedures
• Programming user-defined functions and triggers
• SQL Server 2000 security
• Creating Microsoft Windows®–based applications with SQL Server 2000 and Visual Basic .NET
• Programming Windows solutions with ADO.NET
• Programming ASP.NET solutions  This book has been fully tested on and is compliant with the official release of NET.
Almost
all applications have to deal with data access in some way or another.
This book will teach you how to build Visual Basic .NET applications
that make effective use of databases. Visual Basic .NET is the latest
version of the most widely used programming language in the world,
popular with professional developers and beginners alike.
Starting
with a guide to the basic principles of database design, we then
examine how to query databases and how to access their data - both in
Windows applications and remotely using the Internet and Web Services.
Every new concept is explained thoroughly with Try It Out examples,
plenty of code samples, and end-of-chapter questions to test you.
This book covers:
- The basic principles of relational database design
- Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine
- Querying the database with the T-SQL language
- Visual Studio .NET and the Server Explorer
- ADO.NET and the DataSet
- Data binding, updating the database, and conflict resolution
- XML's role in ADO.NET
- Accessing data with ASP.NET and Web Services
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