VB .Net for Developers

By Keith Franklin

This book will smooth the transition to Visual Basic.NET and help developers understand the paradigm shift presented by the .NET Framework. Key differences between VB 6 and VB.NET will be highlighted in the code samples.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672320894
• ISBN13: 9780672320897
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

How Technical Books Should Be Written

The trouble with most books on technologies like .NET is they try to be all things to all people, and end up being either too shallow or far too long.This book is a very welcome exception. This is how technical books should be written: no messing about, no unnecessary repetition, but all the material is covered clearly in about 250 pages. A very clear target audience (experienced VB6 developers), and clear objectives help - the book's intention is clearly to communicate the essentials, and the practitioner will then get more detail from other sources. It's one of the few books of its type which can be read from cover to cover.The book isn't perfect: I spotted a few proof-reading errors (in an early copy based on the Beta version of VS.NET); some examples are a little difficult to follow, and some topics inevitably rather sketchy.However, I can thoroughly recommend this book, although I suggest that the serious VB developer will probably need other volumes as well: I also purchased "ASP.NET for Developers" by Amundsen & Litwin, and "The Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library" by Powers & Snell, both in the same series from Sams.

Outstanding dot net overview and more.

If you're a seasoned VB developer looking for a book to get you up to speed quickly on dot net this is the one! "VB.NET for Developers" is a readible, concise intro to dot net that I gobbled up in less than 2 weeks. But wait...it's more. It has sections on COM+ services, ADO.NET, and calling Windows APIs via Interop among other advanced topics. If you're looking for a good "first" dot net book then you just found it!

VB .NET helped our team begin .NET development!!!

I am a project lead and have been struggling with various resources on .NET and had a tough time determining where to begin my venture into this new technology. I found this to be a terrific book and it has helped me learn various features of the new IDE and language. I particularly appreciated the before and after style of written that was done. For example, you will find many topics explained similar to, "In VB 5/6 this is how you would implement a class. In VB .NET the implementation would look like this..."My project team was looking for a common point to begin their learning as well, so I encouraged (made...) them purchase this book. The fact that we have this common ground to begin our development has helped us tremendously.I would highly recommend this book for those looking into .NET development. The book reads well, the examples thoughtful and straightforward, and the material covered is quite extensive. Enjoy!

worth every penny

This is exactly the type of VB.NET, sorry I mean VB .NET, book that I was looking for. I'm a VB developer that was looking for a book to provide the necessary knowledge to understand the new paradigm which didn't take months to get through to read.

Great Start into the .NET world for experienced developers

I was looking for a book that would not dumb down Visual Basic or the .NET Framework and I found one. This book could be longer but the content is great. Not just fluff. Time is not spent on setting up the environment the author left that to the setup program that came with Visual Studio.NET. Unlike some books from other publishers nothing in this book was put together by a team and published in half a dozen books or so on .NET.