Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook: Solutions for VB 2005 Programmers

by John Clark Craig, Tim Patrick, John Craig

Book Overview

This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day. If you're a seasoned .NET developer, beginning Visual Basic programmer, or a developer seeking a simple and clear migration path from VB6 to Visual Basic 2005, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook delivers a practical collection of problem-solving recipes for a broad range of Visual Basic programming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596101775
• ISBN13: 9780596101770
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 739 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Perfect For VB 2005 Developers!!

'Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook: Solutions for VB 2005 Programmers' by Tim Patrick is a perfect reference and solution manual for any and all Visual Basic 2005 developers. Written in typical great O'Reilly cookbook fashion, this book is chock full of nuts with 700+ pages of goodness. Chapter Overview 01. VB Basics 02. Development Environment 03. Application Organization 04. Forms, Controls, Other Objects 05. Strings 06. Numbers And Math 07. Dates & Times 08. Arrays & Collections 09. Graphics 10. Multimedia 11. Printing 12. Files & File Systems 13. Databases 14. Programming Techniques 15. Exceptions 16. Cryptography & Compression 17. Web Development This is simply a fabulous book that any and all VB programmers of today need to pick up. Not only will you save time, you'll enjoy doing it while reading this wonderful guide!! ***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Great book

Lots of neat tips and ideas. Well written. Very good value. I've already used several "recipes" from the book in just a couple of weeks of owning it.

Imparts the basics of pros and cons to the solving process.

Over 300 common and uncommon tasks Visual Basic 2005 programmers face often are arranged in a solution-oriented set of examples which is based on 'recipes' and formulas but includes code, examples, complete solutions and even advanced projects. Particularly valuable for .NET developers as well as novice Visual Basic students, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook offers up a set of recipes for solving a wide swatch of common problems - and imparts the basics of pros and cons to the solving process. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

Those code snippets are fabulous...

excuse me, you call them recipes! This is a VB Cookbook. I found the code, especially around the graphics topics to be INVALUABLE! It saved me so much time and effort. John & Tim must be masters at their trade to have put together such an all encompassing book. Masterful. I highly recommend it!

Great book. Got something for everybody

You got to know the basics of Visual Basic before using this book. This book is a very good reference for learning Visual Basic 2005 and also for the advanced developer. It's good for beginners when you are in the stage of "How do I do this...". It's also includes updates for VB6 programmer who are upgrading to Visual Basic 2005 alerting them about the code breaking changes in Visual Basic 2005. The problems discussed are real-world that you may have faced or will face in your development. I have this book for a few days and I really like it. It like a How-To book for developers. The book uses the problem-solution approach. All the problems are listed in the index so you can quickly find the recipe that you need. Each topic/recipe has got 3 sections. First is the "problem" which lists what you want to do. The second section is the "solution" for the problem. You will need to download code for the book. You can download the code for the book from the oreilly site. The third section is "discussion" where the authors have explained the solution for easy understanding. This book has got something for everybody from beginners to advanced developers. It's got a lot of time saving solutions to the development problems that you will face. You can also call it a code library with good documented code that you can use in your development. It's the sort of book that can keep handy next to your workstation(You never know when you are in a fix and you need it or you can just pick it up to learn something new that you can use later). Following are the recipe caregories(chapters) in the book 1. Visual Basic Programming 2. The Development Environment 3. Application Organization 4. Forms, Controls, and Other Useful Objects 5. Strings 6. Numbers and Math 7. Dates and Times 8. Arrays and Collections 9. Graphics 10. Multimedia 11. Printing 12. Files and File Systems 13. Databases 14. Special Programming Techniques 15. Exceptions 16. Cryptography and Compression 17. Web Development The authors have done a very good job with this book. You can see the full table of contents in the O'Reilly site. There is also a sample chapter in PDF format available on the site.