Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies 1st Edition by Bill Sempf (PDF)

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Visual Basic is a favorite programming language, so if you’re new to programming, it’s a great place to start. Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies is the fun and easy way to begin creating applications right away while you get the hang of using the Visual Studio environment. Soon you’ll be building all sorts of useful stuff with VB 2008! This step-by-step guide walks you through a logical series of tasks that build your skills as you get comfortable with .Net terminology, theory, tools, and design principles. You’ll learn how to build an application in four different architectural styles, and you’ll find out how to make your programs validate input and output, make decisions, and protect themselves from security threats. Discover how to:Install the Visual Studio environmentWrite a VB programUse Web forms, Windows forms, and Web servicesEstablish good programming practicesCreate class librariesWrite secure applicationsDebug your applicationsWork with strings and “if-then” statementsIterate with counted and nested loopsPass arguments and get return valuesAccess data with VB.NETWork with the file system using VBYou’ll also find great tips for working with the VB user interface, using VB.NET in C# programming, troubleshooting your VB programs, taking your programming to the next level, and more! Once you get your hands on Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies, you’ll be programming like a genius in no time!

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Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover Write code, develop programs, and build Vista and Web applicationsBuild Windows apps, Web services, and develop Web pages with Visual Basic 2008Visual Basic is a popular and accessible programming language, so if you’re new to programming, it’s a great place to start. Here’s the fun and easy way® to begin creating applications right away (in Chapter 1!) while you get the hang of using the Visual Studio environment. Soon you’ll be building all sorts of useful stuff with VB 2008!Discover how to:Install the Visual Studio environmentUse Web forms, Windows forms, and Web servicesEstablish good programming practicesWrite secure applicationsLeverage new features of the .NET framework About the Author Bill Sempf is an expert programmer, .NET evangelist, and conference speaker. He specializes in creating .NET solutions for his clients, and is the author of VSTO For Dummies.

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

⭐Bill Sempf is a pretty reliable technical author with an engaging writing style that can turn snoozey concepts into clear ideas. I like the general coverage in this book that tries to touch upon a large number of different topics as a way of whetting the reader’s appetite. It also doesn’t mindlessly repeat everything about For-Loops and If-Then statements like every single introductory book in history – I think it’s a fair presumption that this can be skipped since to properly explain basic programming concepts could take a whole book in itself.The biggest weakness is that it’s a Dummies book and that’s a little misleading since truthfully you’d have to be more than a dummy to get very far. This is really targeted at VB6 developers looking to drag their skill set into a recent decade, and if you’re not from the Microsoft-slash-VB world, it’s going to seem like many chapters skim a lot of details. It also targets VB.NET Enterprise which is probably not what the core audience is using (I’m guessing most will be installing Express) but fortunately most of what’s in here applies to both.Overall it’s a very good introductory book written by someone who clearly knows the .NET platform inside and out and a thing or two about computers generally. I hope there’s a next edition soon to cover VB.NET 2012.

⭐While a decent Dummies book in essence, the problem lies in it’s target. The main focus on the book is VB 2008 Professional Edition. I find it hard to think of a common situation where a user would have full access to VB’08 PE, a $650 package at least, and be on a “dummies” level. For a user to have a need of this book, they would normally be on an entry level. Most entry level user’s would be using VB’08 Express. There are a lot of features he highlights that are not available in this edition. This makes this book of little use for a lot of the “dummies” demographic. It does have a lot of useful information in it. With some trial and error and copious use of the Help files, you can adapt this book to the VB Express edition. I have to give it 2 stars for that. I wish I had found another resource instead to waste my money on.

⭐This was a pretty helpful book for someone who wants to learn how to program in Visual Basic. It assumes some knowledge of programming, which I expected, and it taught me how to put the code down to produce what I wanted to do. It is a useful reference book to go to when programming.

⭐I am a self taught programmer already & bought this book to fill in the ‘gaps’ in my knowledge… pretty bad when you have to find & fix the errors made by the printing company; the concepts given in the chapters are clear… if you ‘do’ as you read: I give that portion three stars.

⭐It’s a good read

⭐Great book just took a wile to arrive

⭐If you don’t understand anything in vb this is a very good book. i new more than i thought but i went from cover to cover in a weekend. this book is very good.

⭐I needed to take a visual basic course as an elective. Yeah, like a foreign language to a nurse. This book went slow, and really showed in “baby steps” the process, I couldn’t have made it through the course without it.

⭐Like in most of my reviews a part of my current course at college is sub-ranged into programming and the Dummies Brand is aimed at people taking steps to write and learn in a certain procedure unlike other book’s which may be aimed at advanced programming in mind,Visual Basic is a great language to learn and the Dummies Book tries to teach The beginner how to write,Edit modify and get the ‘sudo coding for VB off the bat and correct’ However I did find it quite annoying and learnt more from the current reference

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⭐pehaps because the coding in the book was not found on the website which the book asks you to download to pratice however Just skimming through the book and praticing what it teaches pays off in time in your new education of Vusual BasicIt is a good way to start learning VB2008 im not flaming the book. I just wish the rescources from the website was updated,However in Vb it is all about the Coding and design to your programs so in that department it is a good investment to learn fromI have many Dummies Guides in programming languages such as C and Java and there clearly explained and would reccomend them for the novice learner starting VB

⭐Quite poor. The author wastes a lot of paragrapghs telling you there will be more about that later. Consequently he doesn’t have enough space to explain anything at all well. I felt I didn’t really learn any more than when I started

⭐I needed to do a job in excel vba, and did not know it.I bought this book, and got my code working in good time for my deadline.It is a very useful beginners book, anf I still keep it in my desk.

⭐Straight and to the point, easy readability, everyday language – True For Dummies fashion.These books are much easier to understand than more formal books.

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