Visual C# - A Guide for Vb6 Developers

by Brad Maiani, Marco Bellinaso, Angelo Kastroulis

Book Overview

This title is aimed at current VB developers who want to learn C#, and want a tutorial that is focused squarely on their needs, in particular on building and deploying Windows Forms applications, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861007175
• ISBN13: 9781861007179
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A very good book!

I am very pleased with this book. It answers all the necessary questions I have about C# and the .NET framework.From OOP issues, to integrating C# with VB6 and visa-versa, plus a whole lot more.It also builds on your learning by having great example games to develop as you build on your knowledge and work through the book.I recommend it to any VB6 programmers wanting to migrate to C#.NET.I am even more impressed because after contacting Wrox support and even one of the authors directly, they responding to my questions in less than an hour (via email); and was happy to give more information about .NET in general rather than just answering questions about their book - very helpful. Thank you guys.Although there is a bug in one of their example games and some text refers to code we have not written yet, the book still does a good job of teaching you C#.

Excellent introduction to C# and .NET

This book provides an excellent introduction to C# and .NET for Visual Basic 6 developers. Having programmed in VC++ rather than VB for the past few years, I still rate the book highly for anyone interested in getting a grounding in .NET...Chapter 14 provides a fitting conclusion to the book by showing us how to deploy our applications. You may be able to deploy your application with a simple XCOPY, but Visual Studio.NET provides powerful tools to create a Setup program. The authors provide a through disscussion of the Setup tools, and remind us that we must insure that the .NET runtime is installed on the target computer. ---Reviewed by Jack D.

I give this book 6 stars

I wish I could give this book 6 stars. This is one of the best computer books I have ever read. I just fished reading this book and am still wondering how a 500 pages book can contain such a rich contents, from starting Visual Studio.NET to .NET Framework, from data types to OOP. I like the way the book is organized. It uses several real-world examples to illustrate C# and OOP. It's easy to read and gives readers quite deep understanding of C# and OOP. I thank the authors and editors for giving us such a wonderful book.Wrox's supports are good. I am surprised to receive answers to my question regarding event handler from Technical Support Analyst Rowena Perks and Support Editor Mike Foster in just two days. Thanks.

Visual C# .NET: A Guide for VB6 Developers

This is one of the most realistic and helpful programming books I've ever had the pleasure to read. If there were more publications like this one that actually focused on the tasks a programmer needs in their day-to-day work, then people would be more prone to read the theoretical books that flood the market (they'd have the time to, since their projects would be in on schedule!) Great stuff, well written, with TONS of code you'll use every day.

fantastic resource!

First off there's no jive in this book about console apps or how to draw polygons or other useless stuff. Why can't all computer books be like this? It's just page after page of really solid code that I've been able to use right now. I can't say enough good things about it really. There's some theory here and there but the book mainly focuses on real-world nuts and bolts tasks. Actually the whole book is laid out nicely and builds on previous chapters unlike some of the books wrox has put out in the past. They definitely got this one right. If you want the theory behind NET then keep looking. But if you want to know how to do something useful in C# then you must get this book.