Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET

Paperback: 592 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (October 23, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201734958
ISBN-13: 978-0201734959
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.2 inches







Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET is the Visual Basic developer's guide to the .NET framework and object-oriented programming.

The authors introduce the basic architecture of the .NET Framework and explore Visual Basic .NET's new OOP features, the syntax required to use them, and the effect that syntax has on code behavior. Readers gain skills essential to creating well-designed applications and component libraries for the .NET Framework.

• Among the topics explored in depth are:
• Writing software for the .NET Framework
• The Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• The Framework Class Library (FCL)
• Using Visual Basic's new object-oriented features
• Programming with delegates, events, and exceptions
• Understanding the difference between values and objects
• Assembly deployment and versioning
• COM and Visual Basic 6.0 interoperability

Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET is the definitive guide to a quick and smooth transition to this new language, and an indispensable tool for becoming comfortable and productive with Visual Basic .NET.


User Review:


I can't be the only VB programmer who has been dragged, kicking and screaming, into the OO world - as I've followed VB through its update history. But in the .NET world OO is everything, including lots of concepts that I've used but never really got round to reading up on and learning from the ground up. Things like inheritance, polymorphism and delegates are obvious examples. And then there's the .NET-specific stuff, like boxing, value-types and reference-types, method over-riding and dynamic binding.

OK, so you can get away with knowing "just enough to get by", but this book really does make it easy to catch up on the concepts and terminology - even if you are fairly new to programming. I found it extremely easy to read, sharp and to the point, and even has those nice disguised touches of humor. I can't figure out yet why the FetchSlippers method in my implementation of the SuperDog class still doesn't work!

My advice: if you can't explain straight out to someone what boxing or polymorphism means now, you'll be a better programmer for reading this book. Well done Ted and Joe...


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