Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008

Teach yourself the fundamentals of working with Visual Basic 2008 one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you re a beginning programmer or new to this specific language, you ll understand the core capabilities and fundamental techniques for Visual Basic 2008 and rapidly build robust, elegant applications. Each chapter puts you to work, showing you how, when, and why to use the latest features of Visual Basic guiding you each step of the way as you create actual components and working applications for Windows. You ll also explore data management and Web-based development topics. PLUS get practice files with sample code and data sets on the companion CD.Key Book BenefitsCovers...

Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 is designed to teach you how to write useful programs in Visual Basic 2008 as quickly and easily as possible.There are two kinds of beginners for whom this book is ideal:Youre a beginner to programming and youve chosen Visual Basic 2008 as the place to start. Thats a great choice! Visual Basic 2008 is not only easy to learn, its also fun to use and very powerful.You can program in another language but youre a beginner to .NET programming. Again, youve made a great choice! Whether youve come from Fortran or Visual Basic 6, youll find that this book quickly gets you up to speed on what you need to know to get the most from Visual Basic 2008.Visual Basic 2008 offers a great deal of functionality in both tools and la...

Ever since Visual Basic was merged into .NET, it's become the core language for creating business applications with Windows. The latest version, VB 2008, is even more useful -- and provides even more incentive for migrating from VB 6. All it lacks is a good book on how to harness its power. Programming Visual Basic 2008 fills the void. Written in a lively and engaging style by a developer who's grown up with Visual Basic, including both VB 6 and VB .NET, this hands-on guide addresses the core topics of the new VB, from basic to complex, with plenty of code examples.Programming Visual Basic 2008 also examines .NET programming from the application level with a chapter-by-chapter plan for developing, documenting, and deploying a full data-driven applica...