Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! by Patrice Pelland (PDF)

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Build your own Web browser, desktop weather station, or other cool application—without any programming experience! Featuring learn-by-doing projects and plenty of visual examples, this hands-on book is your quick start to creating applications for Microsoft Windows.Have fun as you discover how to:Design a rich user interface with easy-to-use tools“Drag and drop” text boxes, buttons, and other controls into your applicationAdd database and reporting capabilitiesExploit features that reduce the amount of code you write Find and fix any bugsRoll-out and share your applicationCD Includes:Visual Basic 2005 Express EditionMicrosoft SQL Server 2005 Express EditionA Note Regarding the CD or DVDThe print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O’Reilly Media’s Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O’Reilly’s web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Publisher This engaging, full-color, learn-by-doing guide show new programmers how to build and customize their first project—a desktop weather-reporting application—now! Readers get all the steps, instructions, and software they need in one package —at a great price Key Book Benefits: • This dynamic, full-color, highly-visual book is designed to help novice programmers build fundamental programming skills for Microsoft Windows®—quickly and easily. • Provides complete software for Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 Express Edition and all the instructions needed to understand and put those tools to work right away. • Features a complete desktop application that can be easily modified and reused a great learn-by-doing example. About the Author Patrice Pelland, Principal Development Manager, Microsoft, and author of Microsoft Visual C#® 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! and other Microsoft Press® titles.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I am a person who has no prior programming.I bought this book with the expectation that I could teach myself the basic material in Visual Basic 2005–I was wrong. I’m going to try another approach with another book or a course.I got to the first project, which I think was too extensive as a starting point. I feel they needed to start out with a less extensive project–a confidence builder.That’s my take and maybe I need a Dummy book.

⭐This book actually helped me quite a bit. It is strictly a cookbook with step by step instructions for building several programs. I found the detailed instructions for binding controls on a form to an underlying database very helpful. Once that program is working, it is easy to modify it to get a better understanding of how to code SQL statements in VB and get them to properly interact with the database. The book assumes that you are reasonably familiar with using VS to build forms. It does highlight several useful tricks that I had not seen in the other half-dozen or so books I have on VB. You will need other books to cover the details of VB, but this one is a useful introduction.

⭐No issues. Very happy with the book

⭐Excellent, I bought it for the disc, which was as new as the disk. Works just great!

⭐I do a lot of self training and always welcome hands on experience which this will give me. Thanks Walt

⭐The examples in the book are great. Starting with a simple console application to add two numbers might seem silly, but it makes sense in Visual Basic 2005 because you can’t just start typing — you have to start somewhere in particular, and you need to know how to do that. Following that, you build a Windows application to add two numbers, an applicatoin to use the web browser control, a database application, and an application that retrieves data from a web service. Each example builds nicely on the one before, and they’re functional enough to be useful in their own right.As important as the examples is what you learn along the way about the tools that make up the Visual Basic 2005 system. The book shows how simple it is to use the built-in components in Visual Basic 2005 to add features and functions to your application including forms, buttons, menus, toolbars, a splash screen, an about box, web services and database connections. This is where the book really shines. It shows you very clearly how to take advantage of the time (and work!) saving features of the system.The book is pretty good at explaining how to design a form. Form design was just awful in previous versions of Visual Basic, but the book clearly explains the new features that make it a little easier. The system is still not perfect – you can’t automatically create three equally spaced textboxes (input fields), for example — but that’s not the fault of this book.The book also does a good job explaining the mechanics of starting a project, building applications and libraries, debugging, and “publishing” your application. “Publishing” is what Microsoft calls the process of turning your completed program into an installer which anyone can run to install your program. There’s also an excellent introduction to database tables and how to create and use them within the system.As you work through the examples in the book, you can really feel yourself gaining momentum. The flip-side of this is that as you go through the book, you get less and less explanation for larger and larger chunks of code. The largest single piece of code is 56 lines long. In context, it’s presented clearly enough that it’s still easy to digest. One way of measuring the success of an introductory book like this is whether it gives you the confidence to keep going on your own, and I think this book does just that.But what if you’re new to programming? If you’re an absolute beginner, this book won’t teach you how to program in Visual Basic. For example, the book never mentions structures or recursion. You can’t do any serious programming just with what you’ll learn about programming from this book, but that’s not its purpose. The instructions in this book ARE clear enough that you’ll be able to follow along, but if you want to get the most out of this book you’ll have to spend some extra time working through the examples and with learning the language, even if it’s only via the online help.On the other hand, I don’t think you can know so much that this book won’t be very useful. Microsoft in its wisdom changes terminology regularly (toolbar is now toolstrip??) and there are many new features in this version of Visual Basic, so it’s a good idea to hire a guide.Depending on your level of experience, you may need other resources to learn everything you want to about programming in Visual Basic 2005, but this is a great place to start.

⭐I have done a little C and some FORTARN programming and I wanted to check out VB since I have heard that it was an easy language to learn. It is and overall this really isn’t a bad book if you have never programmed before. The examples are easy and you are walked through them step by step. What you are doing is also explained but only what you need to know to build the program, very little else. But you are encouraged to explore the program on your own to get a feel for it. As far as programming goes MS VB2005 really takes most of the coding out of it and you just have to add your buttons and text via drag and drop. If you want to make simple programs this is a good start but you will definately want a (much) more advanced book if you want to do anything with any substance. And should you want to move on to C# or C++ in the future you can still use this book. I checked out the C# book in a store and with only a few exceptions it is the exact same as this, right down to the text and examples. I was going to give this 3 stars but it does an excellent job of bringing the beginner with little or no programming experience up to speed to start writing simple programs, and it does it better than several other books I looked at.

⭐This book focuses on building applications quickly using minimal coding. The projects are completed fairly quickly, leaving the reader scratching their head and wondering what they could possible do to enhance the project. The browser project simply allows you to build a copy of internet explorer, with slight variations on functionality. Not much creativity, it almost seems like they could have created a wizard for building a browser, and have the user change the name and version. This book only seems useful as a precursor to coding. I found this book useful for learning the VB GUI, but not as a beginning coding book. I purchased this book because I don’t particularly like to read my computer screen. Book is in full color and includes a CD.

⭐good learning aid

⭐not use or read

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