Visual Basic 2008 Programmer\'s Reference



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Visual Basic 2008 Programmer\'s Reference (Wrox) - February 2008Publisher: Wrox - February 05, 2008

ISBN-10: 0470182628, ISBN-13: 9780470182628

Author: Rod Stephens


1248 pages


Visual Basic 2008 Programmer\'s Reference - book reviews: 16



Book Description
Providing programmers and developers of all skill levels with a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic (VB) 2008, Microsoft MVP Rod Stephens presents a broad, solid understanding of essential topics on the latest version of VB. He explains the forms, controls, and other objects that VB furnishes for building applications in a modern windows environment. Plus, he examines the powerful development environment that makes VB such a productive language, and he delves into the VB language itself to show you how to use it to perform an array of important development tasks.


Most helpful customer reviews

Book rating: 5A "Must Have" for my Library

This is a great resource of information. Rod has a way of presenting material that hits a home run every time. This book is referenced so much by me that my edition is all dog-eared and ragged.

A great book!

Joe Waldin
27 April, 2010

Book rating: 5Best Wrox book yet!

I have bought hundreds of books in the last 25 years and have been programming in VB since Nantucket Clipper in the DOS environment faded (after dBase II), but this just may be the best comprehensive book yet on Visual Basic! I buy from Wrox, Microsoft, Murach and many other fine publishers, but this is truly a great tool to have in your arsenal. I very seldom write reviews, but I felt like I needed to give back any way I could. I don't know Rod Stevens, but my hat is off to him and his team at WROX. Thank You!!! Also, thanks to Microsoft for putting out a great product in Visual Studio 2008!

Ryan L. Todd
26 June, 2009

Book rating: 4Good reference

This is a good reference for people who, like myself, have some experience with VB and almost none with .NET. I can skim thru the book without reading ever word and still find lots of useful info. An advanced .NET programmer would probably not find much here but it works really well for me.

Catman
26 June, 2009

Book rating: 5A veery good book

This is the fourth book I have purchased about VB 2008 and it is much the best. It is not the book if you are looking for an introduction to VB, but if you have already been introduced, it is marvelous. He gives the details that are missing in the other books. I am sure that it cannot cover everything in detail, because VB is too big for any one book, but it does a good job. I have only had it a couple days and already found a number of helpful features that I was unaware of.





Richard Weaver
18 June, 2009

Book rating: 5Very Helpful, clear and straight forward

I'm a occasional programmer on visual basic, most of my work deals with mathematical and physical modelling. If you have some experience with previous version of visual basic, you will find this book very user friendly. It goes directly to the point in most cases, documentation is good and the web examples also helps a lot in understanding the new features of visual studio. I found specially helpful the graphics chapters and how to prepare our software to be ready for windows vista.

J. Sanguinetti
23 March, 2009