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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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Title : Microsoft Visual Basic® Game Programming for Teens
Pub Date : 2005
Author : Jonathan S. Harbour
Publisher: Thomson Course Technology PTR
ISBN : 1-59200-587-X
Overview :

This book teaches you how to create your own role-playing game (RPG)
using Visual Basic and DirectX. I teach you, step-by-step, how to construct each
part of the game using DirectX components such as Direct3D. If you think RPGs
are fun to play, wait until you start working on your very own! Constructing an RPG is far
more interesting than playing one, because you are in complete control over the RPG
world, and you can let your imagination loose to create adventures for others to enjoy.

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Title : Visual Basic® 2005 Programmer’s Reference
Pub Date : 2005
Author : Rod Stephens
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
ISBN-13 : 978-0-7645-7198-5 (paper/website)
ISBN-10 : 0-7645-7198-2 (paper/website)
Overview :

This book is intended for programmers of all levels. It describes the Visual Basic .NET language from scratch, so you don’t need experience with previous versions of the language. The book also covers many intermediate and advanced topics. It covers topics in enough depth that even experienced developers will discover new tips, tricks, and language details. After you have mastered the language, you may still find useful tidbits throughout the book, and the reference appendices will help you look up easily forgotten details.

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Title : Visual Basic® Design Patterns
Pub Date : 2005
Author : Mark Grand and Brad Merrill
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
ISBN-13 : 978-0-471-26860-4 (paper/website)
ISBN-10 : 0-471-26860-7 (paper/website)
Overview :

This book should be of value to programmers of all levels who are working in a .NET environment. Programmers at different levels of experience will get different things from this book. The less experienced programmers will focus on the problem that each pattern solves and its solution.

More experienced programmers who are already familiar with the problem and solution described in a pattern will benefit from the discussion of the reasons to use or not use a solution and its consequences.

Programmers at all levels will benefit from having a name for the solutions described. Those who are already familiar with UML or the software life cycle may skip those chapters.

The pattern chapters may be read in sequence. Some people will prefer to skim and just read those patterns that appear to have immediate relevance to their current assignment. People who have co-workers also reading this book may find it helpful to organize a discussion group to share each other’s insights gained from studying these patterns. Also there are pattern discussion groups that have been organized in many places.

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Title : Introducing Visual Basic 2005 For Developers
Pub Date : -
Author : -
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN : -
Overview :

This book is for Visual Basic developers. If you are a Visual Basic 6 developer, you should begin with Chapter 1, “Microsoft .NET Framework Primer for the Visual Basic Developer,” which will bring you up to speed on development for the .NET Framework. The remainder of the book covers the significant enhancements to Visual Basic that will make you more productive when developing applications.

If you are an existing .NET developer, you can skip Chapter 1 and jump right into Chapter 2, “Language Enhancements for Visual Basic 2005.”

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Title : Visual Basic 2005 Express Now Playing
Pub Date : 2006
Author : Wallace Wang
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN : 1-59327-059-3
Overview :

Programming can be fun. If you’ve ever used a computer and wondered how it worked, or better yet, wanted to make your computer do something better, or different - something that it couldn’t do before - then you already have the mind of a programmer.

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Title : THE BOOK OF™ VISUAL BASIC 2005
Pub Date : 2006
Author : Matthew MacDonald
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN : 1-59327-074-7
Overview :

This book is aimed at Visual Basic 6 developers who want to shed some of
their current habits and start learning about how the .NET platform works
and thinks. We won’t spend any time rehashing basic syntax, but we will
spend a lot of time exploring new .NET concepts.

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Title : Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner
Pub Date : 2006
Author : Jerry Lee Ford, Jr.
Publisher: Course Technology
ISBN : 1592008143
Overview :

Written in a straightforward style, using a games-based approach that makes learning beginning-level programming fun and easy, this book teaches programming skills using Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition as a foundation language.

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Title : Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language
Pub Date : 2006
Author : Francesco Balena
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN :0735621837
Overview :

Get the essential, straightforward information you need to master the core capabilities of Visual Basic 2005. Focusing on the language and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 base class library, a well-known authority on Visual Basic provides both new and experienced developers the pragmatic guidance and examples they need to build innovative solutions.

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