Visual Basic 2010 Unleashed

Visual Basic 2010 Unleashed is the most comprehensive, practical reference to modern object-oriented programming with Visual Basic 2010. Written by Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, a long-time leader of the global VB community, this book illuminates the core of the VB language and demonstrates its effective use in a wide variety of programming scenarios.

Del Sole covers both Visual Basic 2010 Professional Edition for professional developers and the Express Edition for hobbyists, novices, and students. Writing for VB programmers at all levels of experience, he walks through using VB 2010 for data access, user interface development, networking, communication, and many other tasks. For those moving from structured languages---including VB 6---he offers detailed guidance on building effective object-oriented code. He also demonstrates how to make the most of Microsoft's underlying. NET platform to write more robust and powerful software.

This book's broad coverage includes advanced features such as generics and collections; a thorough introduction to the Visual Studio 2010 IDE and Visual Studio Team System; a full section on data access with ADO.NET and LINQ; practical overviews of WPF and WCF; coverage of web and cloud development with Silverlight and Azure; and advanced topics such as multithreading, testing, and deployment.

Alessandro Del Sole, Microsoft MVP for Visual Basic, is well-known throughout the global VB community. He is community leader on the Italian VB Tips and Tricks website that serves more than 41,000 developers and a frequent contributor and blogger at MSDN's Visual Basic Developer Center. He is the author of three books about .NET development with Visual Basic.

Alessandro Del Sole, Microsoft MVP for Visual Basic, is well-known

throughout the global VB community. He is community leader on the

Italian VB Tips and Tricks website that serves more than 41,000

developers and a frequent contributor and blogger at MSDN’s Visual

Basic Developer Center. He is the author of three books about .NET

development with Visual Basic.