Visual Basic(r).NET: The Complete Reference - Softcover

Shapiro, Jeffrey R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072133813 ISBN 13: 9780072133813

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2002

Synopsis

Master this massive programming language upgrade that raises Visual Basic functionality to the level of the .NET platform. Coverage includes all core topics—plus security, debugging, and helpful information on migrating existing Visual Basic projects to Visual Basic.NET.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The Definitive Resource on Visual Basic .NET

Take full advantage of all the new features of Visual Basic .NET with help from this comprehensive resource. Inside, you'll find in-depth information on the new object-oriented capabilities of Visual Basic .NET and details on the core language, including grammar, control-flow, operators, value-types, classes, interfaces, data structures and collections, delegates, GUI components, threading, and debugging. You'll refer to the extensive details inside this all-inclusive volume regularly as you program with Visual Basic .NET.

• Program against the .NET Framework's common language runtime and managed-execution environment
• Build value types and enumerators for industrial-strength code
• Design and implement class hierarchies with inheritance
• Use interfaces for sophisticated algorithms
• Program with Structured Exception Handling (SEH) to create stable applications
• Implement and deploy arrays, linked lists, trees, and other collections
• Use delegates and proven software industry patterns to create highly reusable and adaptable code
• Program against the .NET event and thread models
• Build enterprise business objects and easy-to-maintain flyweight user interfaces
• Learn how COM and .NET objects interoperate

About the Author

Jeffrey R. Shapiro (Boca Raton, FL) has been a consulting engineer and IT specialist for more than 13 years. He has written several books on software development and technology and has written numerous articles on technology for magazines such as Call Center and Network World. A frequent speaker at technology conferences, such as Software Development, Jeffrey has worked with hundreds of companies such as Microsoft, Novell and IBM, a number of public institutions and several governments. Jeffrey is also the author of Osborne¿s SQL Server 2000: The Complete Reference.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072133813
• ISBN 13: 9780072133813
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 901