Petzold's popular C# book -- now for anyone who develops with Microsoft Visual Basic.NET!
Charles Petzold, one of the world's leading Windows development experts, has revised his popular Programming Microsoft Windows with C# book for developers who work in Visual Basic.NET! The best-selling author shows how to use Visual Basic.NET to get the most out of Windows Forms -- the next generation Windows programming class library. You'll learn to use the .NET-enabled version of Visual Basic to create dynamic user interfaces and graphical outputs for Windows-based applications. With dozens of client application examples to illustrate common techniques and plenty of no-nonsense advice on best practices, you'll learn how to go far beyond the basics with Visual Basic.NET.
Charles Petzold wrote the classic Programming Windows®, which is currently in its fifth edition and one of the best-known and widely used programming books of all time. He was honored in 1994 with the Windows Pioneer Award, presented by Microsoft® founder Bill Gates and Windows Magazine. He has been programming with Windows since first obtaining a beta Windows 1.0 SDK in the spring of 1985, and he wrote the very first magazine article on Windows programming in 1986. Charles is an MVP for Client Application Development and the author of several other books including Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.