Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET: An Object-Oriented Approach- Comprehensive

By David Grawrock

Take an object-oriented approach when learning the next generation of Visual Basic. Best-selling author, Micheal Ekedahl explores the .NET platform, discussing Visual Basic as an object-oriented, data-driven language. Tackling the numerous changes and enhancements to the .Net framework, this book is designed for individuals with little or no programming background and introduces sound programming techniques through hands-on exercises and end-of-chapter case problems. It offers real-world MIS and business-related examples to help prepare readers for their first job experience using Visual Basic. NET. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0619016582
• ISBN13: 9780619016586
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 832 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Great for responsible and interested learners!

I have been using this book in concert with another book to teach a two-semester course that covers an introduction to programming logic and design and business programming to MIS students. I have to say that it is like all textbooks, it is not perfect. It could go a little deeper on the explanations of code segments and probably should include additional topics like XML processing and Web services.For these reasons it received...

As good as it gets for VB.NET books

I thought the book was very helpful. Each chapter has a tutorial that takes you step by step to learn the material. It lists out all the relevant properties of controls and lets you know what each one does. The book explains a lot and uses pictures and screen shots to help. Yes, some of it is hard to understand, but almost every programming book has an element of this as it is not an easy task to learn a new language and...

Great source of Learning VB.NET and ASP.NET for all

I have been a Visual Basic 6 developer for 2 years and wanted to make a transition to VB.NET and to learn more on ASP.NET web applications programming. I decided to try this books and found it very helpful, it is very precise in regards to the topic under discussion and the tutorials accompanied with the Chapters are very good as well. The reader gets a complete picture of the topic and only after completing the topics in...

Great Book for VB.NET and ASP.NET

I have been a Visual Basic 6.0 developer for the last two years and decided to upgrade my skills to .NET I found this book very helpful and full of valuable examples and tutorials. The basics of .NET environment are explained well in detail before the actual programming is started and that leaves quite a bit of margin for the readers to fully understand the environment before wetting their hands with code. Topics such as ADO.NET...