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Title : Beginning Visual Basic® 2005
Pub Date : 2006
Author : Thearon Willis and Bryan Newsome
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
ISBN-10 : 0-7645-7401-9
ISBN-13 : 978-0-7645-7401-6
Overview :

Visual Basic 2005 is Microsoft’s latest version of the highly popular Visual Basic .NET programming language, one of the many languages supported in Visual Studio 2005. Visual Basic 2005’s strength lies in its ease of use and the speed at which you can create Windows applications, Web applications, mobile device applications, and Web Services.

In this book, we will introduce you to programming with Visual Basic 2005 and show you how to create the types of applications and services mentioned above. Along the way you’ll also learn about object oriented techniques and learn how to create your own business objects and Windows controls.

Microsoft’s .NET Framework provides Visual Basic 2005 programmers with the ability to create full object oriented programs, just like the ones created using C# or C++. The .NET Framework provides a set of base classes that are common to all programming languages in Visual Studio 2005, which provides you with the same ability to create object-oriented programs as a programmer using C# or C++.

This book will give you a thorough grounding in the basics of programming using Visual Basic 2005; from there the world is your oyster

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Title : Expert One-on-One™ Visual Basic®2005 database programming
Pub Date : 2006
Author : Roger Jennings
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
ISBN-13 : 978-0-7645-7678-2
ISBN-10 : 0-7645-7678-X
Overview :

This book is intended for experienced VB programmers who are upgrading from VB6 or VS 2002/2003 to VB 2005. Basic familiarity with the VS 2005 integrated development environment (IDE) is assumed. However, no prior VB6, VBA, or VBScript database programming experience is necessary, except for Chapter 1, “Migrating from ADO to ADO.NET.” Some experience with writing Microsoft Transact-SQL (T-SQL) statements and authoring simple stored procedures is expected. Familiarity with XML 1.0 and XML schemas will aid your understanding of DataSets and SQL Server 2005’s new xml datatype. Some experience with writing XPath 1.0 expressions will be helpful to get the most benefit from Chapter 12, “Exploring the xml Datatype.”

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Title : Professional Visual Basic 2005
Pub Date : 2006
Author : Bill Evjen … [et al.
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
ISBN-13 : 978-0-7645-7536-5
ISBN-10 : 0-7645-7536-8
Overview :

This book is written to help experienced developers learn about Visual Basic 2005. From those who are just starting the transition from earlier versions to those who have used Visual Basic for a while and need to gain a deeper understanding, this book provides a discussion on the most common programming tasks and concepts you need.

Professional Visual Basic 2005 offers a wide-ranging presentation of Visual Basic concepts, but the .NET Framework is so large and comprehensive that no single book can cover it all. The most important area in which this book does not attempt to be complete is Web development. While chapters discussing the basics of browser-based programming in Visual Basic are included, professional Web developers should instead refer to Professional ASP.NET 2.0 (Wrox Press).

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Title : Visual Basic® 2005 Express Edition For Dummies
Pub Date : 2006
Author : Richard Mansfield
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
ISBN-13 : 978-0-7645-9705-3
ISBN-10 : 0-7645-9705-1
Overview :

My main job in this book is to show you the best way to master the various techniques that, collectively, put you on the path to VB Express programming expertise. If a task requires hands-on programming, I show you, step-by-step, how to write that programming. In other cases, I tell you about a simpler, better way to accomplish a job. Otherwise, you could spend days handprogramming something that’s already been built — something you can create by clicking a simple menu option, adding a prebuilt component, firing up a wizard, or using a template.

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Title : Visual Basic® 2005 For Dummies
Pub Date : 2006
Author : Bill Sempf
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
ISBN-13 : 978-0-7645-7728-4
ISBN-10 : 0-7645-7728-X
Overview :

Programming in Visual Basic is easier than you might think, thanks to the visual tools supplied by Visual Studio. You don’t have to type line after line of code to create a working program — Visual Studio automatically generates some code for you when you drag and drop components with the visual tools. Of course, being able to read and write code is important too, and this book provides plenty of code samples so you can understand the inner workings of your programs.

This book also shows you some best practices to keep in mind as you get further along in your programming. Your first programs may be very simple, but when you start getting into more complicated applications, you really need to plan out your program before you start writing the code.

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Title : Wrox’s Visual Basic®2005 Express Edition Starter Kit
Pub Date : 2006
Author : Andrew Parsons
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
ISBN-10 : 0-7645-9573-3
ISBN-13 : 978-0-7645-9573-8
Overview :

This book is completely, unabashedly focused on the just released Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. From installation to deployment, everything that you can do in Visual Basic Express is discussed here so you can get up to speed as quickly as possible.

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Title : Introduction To Visual Basic 2005
Pub Date : -
Author : -
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN : -
Overview :

Microsoft has looked at all aspects of coding—including the writing of the code itself, debugging, and deployment—and really examined how it could streamline each of these experiences. The enhancements are far reaching and include changes to the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET language itself, improvements to the IDE, simplification of data access and display, changes that increase developer productivity when constructing professional user interfaces, addition of a significant number of new classes to the framework to reduce the amount of code that you write, and an increase in the power and
simplicity of deployment.

This book will examine each of these areas in depth. In addition, while this book focuses on building desktop applications, most developers are doing at least some Web development. For this reason, Chapter 6, “Building Web Applications,” covers some of the most significant changes to ASP.NET.

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Title : Programming Visual Basic 2005
Pub Date : September 2005
Author : Jesse Liberty
Publisher: O’Reilly
ISBN : 0-596-00949-6
Overview :

This newest programming guide by bestselling author Jesse Liberty isn’t your typical Visual Basic book. It’s not a primer on the language, and it won’t dull your brain with arguments hyping .NET either. Its goal, rather, is to make you immediately productive, creating Windows and Web applications using Visual Basic and its associated tools.

Written for experienced Visual Basic programmers (from either a VB6 or VB .NET background), the book shows how Visual Basic 2005 can be used to rapidly build modern web applications and new “Smart Client” applications, which combine the power of individual computers with network data resources to deliver a rich interactive experience. You’ll also learn the details of building robust object-oriented applications, and a host of especially dangerous pitfalls to avoid when programming with Visual Basic 2005.

What makes this book different is what’s not included. There’s no introduction to Visual Basic, no explanation of how it fits into the .NET world. Why waste time reading about something you’ll learn for yourself as soon as you start creating applications? You won’t even write a “Hello World” program. With Jesse Liberty, you’ll get started building something useful.

The book is divided into three separate parts–Building Windows Applications, Building Web Applications, and Programming with Visual Basic–each of which could be a book on its own. The author shares his thorough understanding of the subject matter through lucid explanations and intelligently designed lessons that guide you to increasing levels of expertise. By the time you’ve finished the book, you’ll know how to program with VB 2005.

Jesse Liberty’s books have successfully guided thousands of programmers into the world of .NET programming, and Programming Visual Basic 2005 will be no exception. This book is sure to become a key component in the libraries of .NET developers.

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Title : Visual Basic 2005: A Developer’s Notebook
Pub Date : April 2005
Author : Matthew MacDonald
Publisher: O’Reilly
ISBN : 0-596-00726-4
Overview :

To bring you up to speed with Visual Basic 2005, this practical book offers nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one explores a new feature of the language, with emphasis on changes that can increase productivity, simplify programming tasks, and help you add new functionality to your applications. You get the goods straight from the masters in an informal, code-intensive style. Part of our new Developer’s Notebook series.

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Title : Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart
Pub Date : September 2005
Author : Wei-Meng Lee
Publisher: O’Reilly
ISBN : 0-596-10071-X
Overview :

Okay, all you VB6 developers–time’s up. As of March 2005, Microsoft no longer supports this version of Visual Basic. And you can’t blame them. Three years ago, they introduced the .NET Framework–an elegant, powerful platform–along with the new component-based VB.NET language. But roughly five million of you decided to stick with VB6, mostly to maintain legacy Windows and COM projects.

Now, with the upcoming release of VB 2005, Microsoft has several attractive reasons to upgrade that you’ll find hard to resist, including the return of some VB6 features. And we have the perfect book to help you make the conversion: Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart. Now, you can test-drive the beta version of VB 2005 with three hands-on projects that enable you to learn the syntax of this new language quickly.

VB 2005 not only lets you convert the bulk of your existing VB6 code, but offers several familiar features, such as compile-and-run debugging, new MyClasses that simplify use of .NET libraries and frameworks, lots of IDE support for Windows, web and mobile GUI development, and data access controls that closely resemble what you use now. The real plus is that you’ll be using these features with the .NET platform, which is more secure, less complex than COM, and offers OneClick deployment.

Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart lets you get the feel of this platform for building smart/rich Windows Forms clients, ASP.NET web applications, and web services. Author Wei-Meng Lee, a Microsoft .NET MVP, veteran O’Reilly author and frequent contributor to the O’Reilly Network, has put together three useful test-drive projects, complete with code samples, that let you develop:
-A personal library Windows application
-A Web-based shopping cart application
-A stock enquiry Web Service

Our jumpstart guide is the quick, painless way to migrate from VB6 to VB 2005, and the perfect training manual for moving your organization to the more robust, dynamic and secure world of .NET.

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