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Written for intermediate to advanced Visual Basic programmers and programmers coming to VB .NET from other languages, this book covers VB. NEt adoption strategies, concepts such as inheritance and multithreading, code aspects, and Windows and Internet applications. New to this second edition are comparisons between VB2002 and VB2003, and additional discussions of late binding, thread pooling, Regular Expressions, and .NET remoting. The author is a software developer.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description

In this new edition of his popular title, Moving to VB .NET: Strategies, Concepts, and Code, Second Edition, Visual Basic guru Dan Appleman not only updates the book to include coverage of changes to Visual Basic .NET in Visual Studio .NET 2003, but he extends the areas most important to VB .NET programmers since its release. Topics such as .NET remoting, versioning, and object-oriented programming are further illuminated using Appleman's own personable and highly effective style.

Appleman explains the whys and hows of the VB .NET technology features, and delves into the controversies around many of the choices. Evaluating VB .NET from the perspective of the developer, you'll learn to write high quality VB .NET code in well-designed applications. The author brings the same attention to technical detail and real-world attitude to this second edition as he has brought to all of his past books.


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In this new edition of his popular title, Moving to VB .NET: Strategies, Concepts, and Code, Second Edition, Visual Basic guru Dan Appleman not only updates the book to include coverage of changes to Visual Basic .NET in Visual Studio .NET 2003, but extends the areas most important to VB .NET programmers since its release. Topics such as .NET remoting, versioning and object oriented programming are further illuminated using Appleman's own personable and highly effective style.

Appleman explains the why's and how's of the VB .NET technology features and the controversies around some of those choices. Evaluating VB .NET from the perspective of the developer, you’ll find material that may infuriate everybody from staunch VB traditionalists to Microsoft marketing staff. Most importantly, you'll learn to write good quality VB .NET code in well-designed applications. Appleman brings the same attention to technical detail and real-world attitude to the second edition as he has brought to all of his past books. It's sure to be a winner with readers.


Book Info
A professional networker's guide to making the transition to VB.NET. Shows how to master key concepts such as multithreading, inheritance, and .NET memory management. Also provides the key to working with the new code required for VB.NET. Softcover.


About the Author
Daniel Appleman is the president of Desaware Inc., a developer of add-on products and components for Microsoft Visual Studio, including SpyWorks, StateCoder, and the NT Service Toolkit for .NET languages and VB6. He is a cofounder of Apress, a publishing company specializing in high-quality professional level books for computer programmers and IT professionals. He is the author of numerous books, including <i>Moving to VB .NET: Strategies, Concepts and Code</i>, <i>How Computer Programming Works</i>, and <i>Dan Appleman’s Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide to the Win32 API</i>, and he is the author of a series of ebooks on .NET-related topics.

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