Visual Basic .NET Developer's Handbook - Softcover

Evangelos Petroutsos; Mark Ridgeway

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0782128793 ISBN 13: 9780782128796

Publisher: Sybex Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Thoroughly updated to incorporate all the latest features of Visual Basic .NET, this comprehensive handbook covers such topics as advanced SQL examples, multithreading, customizing components and controls, developing XML Web Services for cross-platform applications, and creating programs for mobile devices. Original. (Advanced)

About this title

About the Author

Evangelos Petroutsos is a computer engineer who gained much of his experience at the California Institute of Technology and MCI. Currently, he writes computer books and works as a freelance computer consultant and trainer. He has authored and co-authored dozens of programming titles, including several earlier editions of this book, Mastering Visual Basic .NET, and Mastering Visual Basic .NET Database Programming.

Mark Ridgeway is head of IT at Braemar College in Woodend, Australia, where he runs a computer network and teaches young minds to take nothing for granted. He has written a number of articles and tutorials on developing for the Mobile Internet and is the author of .NET Wireless Programming, also from Sybex.

From the Back Cover

Perhaps you ve had a taste of .NET programming and are hungry for more advanced coverage of the new Visual Basic. Or perhaps you ve mastered VB-6 and are ready to move to the .NET framework and the capabilities of Visual Basic .NET. Either way, Visual Basic .NET Developer s Handbook gives you what you want, and need.

If your goals involve web programming, this book offers detailed instruction that will help you achieve them. You ll learn to use Visual Basic .NET to build and deploy XML-based Web services, create ASP.NET-based web applications, and implement support for mobile devices. As you progress, you ll master some of the trickier aspects of form design, solve tough database connectivity challenges, and secure your applications with built-in .NET features.

If you re a Windows programmer who knows VB-6 inside and out, you ll find many compelling reasons for making the shift to VB.NET. This book provides the specialized coverage you need to do it quickly and effectively. You ll learn how the newest Visual Basic lets you build dramatically better Windows applications. You may cringe at the thought of mastering a new file I/O methodology, for example, but wait until you see all that streams has to offer, beginning with faster data access. And, you ll also learn new, more -effective approaches to building custom Windows services and controls.

Visual Basic .NET is at the forefront of the convergence of Windows and web programming. Whatever your focus, whatever your career path, Visual Basic .NET Developer s Handbook is the resource best suited to helping you navigate this convergence skillfully and successfully.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sybex Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0782128793
• ISBN 13: 9780782128796
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 896