Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .Net 2003 in 21 Days

By Steven Holzner

Book Overview

With over 1.3 million developers in North America and 4 million worldwide, Visual Basic is the most popular development tool on the market today. Though the transition from VB 6 to VB .NET has been slow since its release in late 2001, this revolutionary and powerful programming language is moving out of the early adopter stage and into general acceptance by the bulk of the developer audience. Teach Yourself VB .NET in 21 Days, 2/E is designed to be the new market leader, written to make VB .NET more accessible than ever before. Currently most books on the market approach VB .NET theoretically, with chapters like Object Syntax Introduction, Syntactical Types, and Applying Objects and Assemblies. The approach for this book is from the practitioner's point of view -task-oriented, full of examples, and written in an easy-to-understand way. From Windows and Web forms to Windows and Web services, this book presents relevant and practical material for the everyday VB .NET coder. Visual Basic .NET is available as part of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET suite of developer tools ($1,079 to $2,499) or as a standalone product ($109 before MS rebates).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672325314
• ISBN13: 9780672325311
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 984 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Abby Road of VB .NET 2003 Books

It's a good book, but yes as many have said its got lots of errors. Most computer books have lots of errors. I wish the book would have a website with the solutions to end of chapter applications and other goodies, but it does not come with anything other than the source code for the book. Anyway, I use this book for one of my classes: http://iws2.ccccd.edu/bbenavides/ITSE2349_Holzner/Advanced.htm In the end, I would say its one of the best vb .net books I have read.

comprehensive

chapter on OOP is great for beginners. most comprehensive vb.net book that i have read. ...and this is book #12 in my collection.

Down-to-Earth, good for reference

I found this book to be a superbly written manual for learning Visual Basic and as a reference. The language is very clear and easy to understand. Chapters are well structured, making it easy to skip and search through the book if you forget something. Most important, this book is quite comprehensive and has writing on nearly everything you will encounter in the Visual Basic syntax. In addition, the later chapters focus on some features that most VB books dare not explore. These features include detailed tutorials to databases, web applications and custom user controls. Those later chapters have come in handy and have made this book an all-in-one reference. It eliminated the need for other specialized books, such as an introduction to ASP.NET. Not only does this book teach Visual Basic, but it is an excellent all around reference for the entire .NET platform. Novice programmers may find this book too straightforward and boring to read. If you can be easily confused with programming, or prefer to learn at a more humorous and relaxing environment, then I recommend one of the "Visual Basic for Dummies" books. If you already have some experience writing software and are interested in getting to the hardcore Visual Basic right away, then "Sam's Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET 2003" is an excellent choice.

Great Book!!!!

I bought some books of .NET, including this one, and for many things this is the best one. This is a book to programming from 0. It includes referenceses, sintaxis, good examples, etc. Really I recommend it.

Great Book, Easy to understand

I threw out 4 or 5 other books before I bought this one. It is very well presented as a basic reference. FYI I am certified in VB6 and have been to a 40 hour vb.net class and still found this to be a very good book. The samples work and they give you a wide variety of code. I see there is another book by Sams with the exact title as this ??? Wasup with that?