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Summary: Professional VB.Net
Review: The .Net platform has undoubtedly revolutionized the world of software development, whether web based or traditional windows. Professional VB.Net like other WROX books (pardon my bias) does complete justice to the subject matter, explaining every nuance and subtlety with the typical lucidness that WROX books have been come to be known for. I used this book to pass the 70-305 certification exam. Great book for learning the language and the .Net platform.
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Summary: Much better than the 1st edition!
Review: This 2nd edition works on the final release of .NET and they've played about with the structure a fair bit. Some of the overlap at the beginning is gone and there are 4 new chapters - remoting, data binding, networking, and windows services. An excellent book!
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Summary: A must for the experienced Visual Basic developer!
Review: This book is for experienced developers who need to make the transition to VB.NET. It will also help programmers with previous knowledge of VB.NET who want to move up to the professional level.The book begins with an introduction to the .NET Framework and common language RunTime(CLR). The CLR is responsible for managing the execution of code compiled for the .NET platform. The next few chapters focus on object oriented programming and how to derive classes from base classes using inheritance. Chapter 9 gives a detailed discussion on how error handling works in VB.NET by discussing the CLR exception handler in detail and the new Try...Catch...Finally structure. An entire chapter is devoted to multi-threading. You will learn how threads can be created, and the differences between multitasking and multi-threading. Chapter 16 discusses COM and .NET component interoperability, and the tools provided to help link the two technologies together. Chapter 18 gives detailed coverage of the ADO.NET data access technology. You will learn how to build flexible, fast, and scalable data access objects and applications. The final chapters discuss building web applications with web forms, creating custom controls for Windows Forms and Web Forms, and finally, creating and consuming Web Services. If you're an experienced VB developer and would like to make the transition to VB.NET, then this book is a must.
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Summary: Full of useful information
Review: This is a huge book (just short of a thousand pages) and it's packed full of really useful information. It covers all the important parts of the .NET Framework Class Library - Win Forms, Web Forms, ADO.NET, XML, Web Services and more - as well as the syntax and new features of Visual Basic .NET. With so much to cover the book has to keep up a decent pace, which means that the authors assume that you've got experience of working with Visual Basic 6. If you're new to programming then you'll want to look elsewhere. For VB6 programmers this book is great value.
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Summary: nice and clear to the point.
Review: This is not a book for beginners who are new to VB world. This book explains the differences (improvements) from VB6.0 to VB.NET. In addition, it has a few chapters that explain the Object Oriented concept in a well-organized fashion. This book is a good investment for anyone who is looking to move into the VB.NET world.
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Summary: Updated - Ready for Visual Studio v1.0
Review: Wrox has reworked the second edition to now work with the Release of .Net and Vsual Studio v1.0. They have obviously been looking at the feedback from customers and have reorganized and added new material. This is from the Professional series and provides a lot of detail in each chapter, it is not simply a sample. It provides good examples and explanations of each subject covered. Another quality Wrox title!
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Summary: Updated - Ready for Visual Studio v1.0
Review: Wrox has reworked the second edition to now work with the Release of .Net and Vsual Studio v1.0. They have obviously been looking at the feedback from customers and have reorganized and added new material. This is from the Professional series and provides a lot of detail in each chapter, it is not simply a sample. It provides good examples and explanations of each subject covered. Another quality Wrox title!
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