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Title: Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET by Ted Pattison, Joe Hummel ISBN: 0-201-73495-8 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 17 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An essential resource, none better for moving to .NT
Comment: As a college instructor, I have literally reviewed more than a dozen books on the Visual Basic .NET language. This books is far above its peers. It is well-organized, thorough, insightful, and clearly presents is topics. I can think of no better resource for experienced developers who need to transition to Visual Studio .NET and Visual Basic .NET.
With coverage of essential topics such as the Common Language Runtime, the .NET Framework, changes in object-oriented programming, and managing and deploying assemblies, this text covers EVERY essential change in Visual Basic .NET
That having been said, this book is not intended for new Visual Basic developers. You will not find the introductory material necessary to get you up to speed in Visual Basic programming. A familiarity with previous Visual Basic versions and a rock-solid understanding of object-oriented programming theory and methodology is essential.
This is a hard-core professional reference, ready to give experienced programmers a jump-start into Visual Basic .NET, and its the best professional coverage of changes in .NET that I've found out there.
Rating: 5
Summary: It doesn't get any better than this
Comment: I was looking at this book the other day and wasn't sure about it. I've recently picked up a few copies of Addison-Wesley's .NET Developer's series and really loved them, but thought "Oh boy, another VB.NET component book" But, when I looked at the cover, Francesco Balena and Rockford Lhotka both wrote parts of the Foreword and couldnt' have said nicer things. Well, I have everything that either of them have written and respect both of those authors blindly. If Balena or Lhotka say this book is good, it's good. Well, it's fabulous. Pattison is nothing short of amazing. The level of detail he covers things in is almost scarry. If you want to understand your art, and your art is VB.NET, this book is for you.. I couldn't find something to criticize about this book if you paid me to. Great examples, even better explanations and an author that can communicate to anyone - and can get his point across very succinctly!
So, now I've now added Pattison to my list of Balena, Appleman, MacDonald and Lhotka as my favorite VB authors!
Rating: 5
Summary: A must-read book, even for experienced VB programmers
Comment: 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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Title: The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language by Paul Vick ISBN: 0321169514 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET by Chris Sells, Justin Gehtland ISBN: 0321125193 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 24 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference) by Francesco Balena ISBN: 0735613753 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 17 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: 101 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Applications by Sean Campbell, Patrick Barnes, Sean Campbell, Bob Carver, Kris Horrocks, Jim Pragit, Oz Rugless, Scott Swigart ISBN: 0735618917 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 28 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects by Rockford Lhotka ISBN: 1590591453 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 02 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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