Visual Basic 2008 Step by Step
What This Title Covers
A hands-on walkthrough of Visual Basic 2008 using a step-by-step methodology. Each chapter presents a concept, demonstrates it with working code, and provides exercises to reinforce learning. Covers Windows Forms development, basic database access, file operations, and web services. The step-by-step format makes it particularly effective for self-paced learning.
Who It's For
Complete beginners to programming or developers from other languages who need to learn VB.NET quickly. The step-by-step format requires no prior Visual Basic experience. Also useful for VB6 developers transitioning to the .NET platform.
Key Chapters and Concepts
- Visual Studio IDE orientation and project setup
- Variables, data types, and operators
- Control flow: conditionals, loops, error handling
- Windows Forms UI development
- Object-oriented programming basics
- Database access with ADO.NET
- File I/O and text processing
- Basic web service consumption
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