VB .NET Language in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference - Softcover

Steven Roman, PhD; Petrusha, Ron; Lomax, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596000928 ISBN 13: 9780596000929

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2001

Synopsis

The extensive changes to Visual Basic and the newness of the .NET platform call for a VB .NET reference guide oriented toward professional developers--those deeply experienced in Visual Basic and those adding VB .NET to their list of mastered languages. VB .NET Language in a Nutshell answers the call. As a reference book, it doesn't waste space on simple concepts, but documents, using practical examples, how language elements work, alternative approaches, optimal usage, and potential pitfalls.As a quick introduction, the first section of VB .NET Language in a Nutshell leads you through the important areas of programming VB .NET, including:

• Variables and Data Types
• Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
• The .NET Framework: General Concepts
• The .NET Framework Class Library
• Delegates and Events
• Error Handling

The meat of the book is the alphabetical reference to the functions, statements, directives, objects, and object members that make up the VB .NET language. As an experienced developer, you can quickly get the whole story on a language element that interests you or seems to be behaving unexpectedly in your code. To ease your transition to .NET, there's a "VB .NET/VB 6 Differences" section for each language element.A hefty appendix section includes:

• What's New and Different in VB .NET
• Language Elements by category
• Operators
• Constants and Enumerations
• The VB .NET Command Line Compiler
• VB 6 Language Elements Not Supported by VB .NET

No matter how much experience you have programming with VB, this is the kind of book you'll want to have close by, both as your standard reference guide and as a tool for troubleshooting and identifying programming problems.

About this title

About the Author

Ron Petrusha is an editor for O'Reilly and is the author/coauthor of many books, including VBScript in a Nutshell. Ron has a background in quantitative labor history, specializing in Russian labor history, and holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Columbia University. He began working with computers in the mid 1970s, programming in SPSS (a programmable statistical package) and FORTRAN on the IBM 370 family. Since then, he has been a computer book buyer, an editor of a number of books on Windows and Unix, and a consultant on projects written in dBASE, Clipper, and Visual Basic.

Paul Lomax, author of O'Reilly's VB & VBA in a Nutshell and a coauthor of VBScript in a Nutshell, is an experienced VB programmer with a passion for sharing his knowledge--and his collection of programming tips and techniques gathered from real-world experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0596000928
• ISBN 13: 9780596000929
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656