Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 (VB .NET) in 24 Hours Complete Starter Kit

By James D. Foxall

Providing readers with 24 structured lessons with step-by-step guidance, this book focuses on real-world programming tasks including Windows and Web applications. Now that Visual Studio is moving out of the early adopter stage and into general acceptance by the bulk of the developer audience, use of Visual Basic, the most highly used programming language in the world, will migrate from VB 6 to VB.NET. This book reaches coders on the verge of upgrading to .NET programming. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672325373
• ISBN13: 9780672325373
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book giving step by step progress

I'm a Cobol and PL1 programmer with 20 years experince in the IT industry. I wanted to make the transition to newer technologies, including VB.NET. This meant I had to start understanding Object Oriented programming as well as the VB.NET syntax and what it can do. This book is GREAT in the sense that it takes you step by step through VB.NET features. Halfway though the book I was confidently adding stuff to the exercises...

A truly great book for the serious beginner

Every once in a long while, a great book comes along that forces even someone like me to post a public opinion. This book unlike a lot of other "great" books takes you step by step and actually show you "HOW it is done" and not just tell you what you are to do.After trying another VB.NET Beginners book that was highly touted on the internet I almost gave up.I came accross this book on the shelf of Borders just by chanceand...

Excellent book for the beginner

If you just starting out with VB.net then this is a good book to start out with. A well written book that keeps your interest and presents its subject matter in a straightforward, easy to understand manor. Each lesson builds on the previous lesson enabling the beginner to get a grasp of the subject matter quickly and easily as well as build a good foundation for more advanced books. Excellent book for the beginner.

If only all technical books were as good as this one.

James Foxall is that very rare author, a person who not only knows his subject matter, but also has the ability to teach it to others. Right away in Chapter One you get to build an interesting application that makes you want to learn more, but the real magic is in the way he takes you there. You learn a concept not in isolation, but within the context of the other key concepts needed to make it work. James is able to teach...

Another excellent book by Foxall!

I'm a big fan of Foxall's books, particularly his MCSD in a Nutshell book. This is an excellent introduction to Visual Basic .NET. Visual Basic .NET is a different beast from Visual Basic 6, and this book does a good job of teaching you the new way of doing things. I was a little afraid of getting a book that rehashes vb 6 material, but this book is clearly a ".NET" book. Highly recommended!