| When Microsoft introduced the Visual Basic .NET programming
language, as part of its move to the .NET Framework two
years ago, many developers willingly made the switch.
Millions of others, however, continued to stick with Visual
Basic 6. They weren't ready for such a radical change, which
included an object-oriented environment similar to Java.
They liked the old Visual Basic just fine.
In an effort to win over those diehard VB6 developers, the
company has included a new version of VB.NET in its upcoming
next generation release of the Visual Studio .NET
development platform. Visual Basic 2005 comes with
innovative language constructs, new compiler features,
dramatically enhanced productivity and an improved debugging
experience. The language's new version is now available in
beta release, and Microsoft is encouraging developers to
give it a test drive.
Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook provides the ideal
test track. With nearly 50 hands-on projects, this practical
introduction to VB 2005 will bring you up to speed on all
the new features of this language by allowing you to work
with them directly. The book summarizes the changes that VB
2005 brings, and tells you how to acquire, install and
configure the beta version of VB 2005 SDK. Each project or
experiment explores a different feature, with emphasis on
changes that can increase productivity, simplify programming
tasks, and help you add new functionality to your
applications.
This one-of-a-kind book also offers suggestions for further
experimentation, links to on-line documentation and other
sources of information, and practical notes and warnings
from the author.
The new Developer's Notebooks series from O'Reilly offers an
in-depth first look at important new tools for software
developers. Emphasizing example over explanation and
practice over theory, they focus on learning by doing you'll
get the goods straight from the masters, in an informal and
code-intensive style. For those who want to get up speed
with VB 2005 right away, this is the perfect all lab, no
lecture guide.
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