Murach's Visual Basic 2012: Training & Reference

This book gets you off to a fast start by showing you how to use Visual Studio 2012, VB 2012, and the .NET 4.5 classes to develop Windows Forms applications. Next, it shows you how to handle data…a must in business development...using data sources and ADO.NET for database data and LINQ for all types of data. Then, it shows you the best techniques for developing object-oriented applications. It ends with an introduction to Windows 8 programming so you can start experimenting with Windows Store apps. And along the way, it gives you the core skills that you need to develop any VB application...whether for Windows, the web, or mobile devices. In short, No other core VB book teaches you so much, so fast, or so thoroughly.

Anne Boehm has over 30 years of experience as an enterprise programmer. She got started with Visual Basic in the days of VB5, and has been programming on .NET since its inception. In the past 5 years, she's added C# to her programming repertoire, and she's authored or co-authored books on Visual Basic, C#, ADO.NET, and ASP.NET.