Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer Tech))

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 360 pages
• Published by: For Dummies; Pap/Onl edition March 31, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470182385
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470182383
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 9.6 ounces

Product Description
Visual Basic is a favorite programming language, so if you’re new to programming, it’s a great place to start. Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies is the fun and easy way to begin creating applications right away while you get the hang of using the Visual Studio environment. Soon you’ll be building all sorts of useful stuff with VB 2008!

This step-by-step guide walks you through a logical series of tasks that build your skills as you get comfortable with .Net terminology, theory, tools, and design principles. You’ll learn how to build an application in four different architectural styles, and you’ll find out how to make your programs validate input and output, make decisions, and protect themselves from security threats. Discover how to:

• Install the Visual Studio environment
• Write a VB program
• Use Web forms, Windows forms, and Web services
• Establish good programming practices
• Create class libraries
• Write secure applications
• Debug your applications
• Work with strings and “if-then” statements
• Iterate with counted and nested loops
• Pass arguments and get return values
• Access data with VB.NET
• Work with the file system using VB

You’ll also find great tips for working with the VB user interface, using VB.NET in C# programming, troubleshooting your VB programs, taking your programming to the next level, and more! Once you get your hands on Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies, you’ll be programming like a genius in no time!

Back Cover Copy
Write code, develop programs, and build Vista and Web applications

Build Windows apps, Web services, and develop Web pages with Visual Basic 2008

Visual Basic is a popular and accessible programming language, so if you're new to programming, it's a great place to start. Here's the fun and easy way® to begin creating applications right away (in Chapter 1!) while you get the hang of using the Visual Studio environment. Soon you'll be building all sorts of useful stuff with VB 2008!

Discover how to:

• 
  
  Install the Visual Studio environment
• 
  
  Use Web forms, Windows forms, and Web services
• 
  
  Establish good programming practices
• 
  
  Write secure applications
• 
  
  Leverage new features of the .NET framework

Reader Reviews
Try as hard as I can, I cannot find anything positive to say about this "book". Don't be fooled by the table of content, it might sound "juicy" but it's as illusory as a politicians promises ... There 's no substance in this text, and the whole teaching strategy is flawed. If you begin your programming journey here you will probably conclude programming is not an art, an intellectual challenge, or an intriguing game, but a boring routine to help visual studio write boring useless applications. You might have heard Edsger Dijkstra quote: "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." This might not be necessarily true for VB.NET, but it will if you start your study with this text.