VB 2008 offers powerful new features, and Accelerated VB 2008 is the
fastest path to mastering them, and the rest of VB, for both experienced
VB programmers moving to VB 2008 and programmers moving to VB from
another object-oriented language. Many books introduce VB, but very few
also explain how to use it optimally with the .NET common language
runtime (CLR). This book teaches both core VB language concepts and how
to wisely employ VB idioms and object-oriented design patterns to
exploit the power of VB and the CLR.

Accelerated VB 2008 is both a rapid tutorial and a permanent reference.
You’ll quickly master VB syntax while learning how the CLR simplifies (more…)

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Course highlights

• Ensure quality of work with the necessary knowledge of the VB language.
• Streamline applications with debugging and security considerations.
• Understand the basics of creating a user interface with the underlying .NET framework.
• Discover how to create desktop, smart client, and dynamic web applications.
• Be more productive with enhancements to forms, solutions, and more.
• About This Course

This course provides an introduction to the Visual Basic 2005 language.

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Visual Basic .NET Black Book is a comprehensive reference and problem-solving guide for Visual Basic programmers. It covers Visual Basic.NET tips, examples, and how-tos on everything from programming to managing the development of Visual Basic applications. It provides in-depth material on the new object-oriented features of Visual Basic .NET. Readers will also learn about the crucial Visual Basic tool set in detail including the best Visual Basic programming practices, from design tools to interface design. Using the popular Black Book format, this book provides in-depth analyses of VB.NET technologies and hundreds of immediate programming solutions making it an invaluable resource.
This book has been designed to give you the Visual Basic .NET coverage you just won’t find in any other book. Other books often omit not only the larger topics, like (more…)

Using this book, you should be able to pick up the beginning concepts of game development pretty easily. It takes you through the simple sprite-based games, all the way through a basic 3-D game implementation.
The whole book is designed to be read in a continuous way. In Chapter 1, westart by creating a very simple game while presenting the basics of collision detection. Chapter 2 shows how to build a new game, using the concepts presented in Chapter 1 and adding new explanations and examples about artificial intelligence in games.

Please keep in mind though that this book isn’t intended to provide a route to the professional game programming world, because we don’t go deep enough into some (more…)

Visual Basic 2005 adds new features to Visual Basic (VB) that make it a more powerful programming language than ever before. This combined tutorial and reference describes VB 2005 from scratch, while also offering in-depth content for more advanced developers. Whether you’re looking to learn the latest features of VB 2005 or you want a refresher of easily forgotten details, this book is an ideal resource.

Well-known VB expert Rod Stephens features the basics of Visual Basic 2005 programming in the first half of the book. The second half serves as a reference that allows you to quickly locate information for specific language features. It’s a comprehensive look at programming using the increased set of language options offered with the VB 2005 release, confirming that there has never been a better time to learn Visual Basic than now. (more…)

Written for C#, C++, Java or other-high level language programmers, this book applies the Deitel signature live-code approach to teaching programming and explores Microsoft’s Visual Basic language and the new .NET 2.0 in depth. The book is updated for Visual Studio 2005 and presents Visual Basic concepts in fully tested programs, complete with syntax shading, line-by-line code descriptions, and program outputs. The book features 200+ applications with 16,000+ lines of proven Visual Basic code, and hundreds of programming tips that help you build robust applications.
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Providing complete and authoritative coverage of all aspects of VBA programming for Access applications, this book uses real-world code examples to demonstrate each programming topic

Introductory chapters provide a brief overview of VBA and highlight what’s new in Access 2007, the most popular database system in the world
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