Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies

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 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 environment
Write a VB program
Use Web forms, Windows forms, and Web services
Establish good programming practices
Create class libraries
Write secure applications
Debug your applications
Work with strings and “if-then” statements
Iterate with counted and nested loops
Pass arguments and get return values
Access data with VB
Work with the file system using VB

You’ll also find great tips for working with the VB user interface, using VB 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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Title of ebook: Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies
ISBN: 9780470374306
parent-ISBN: 9780470182383
Publisher: For Dummies
Internet download file size: 11881 kb
Pages: 360
Published: 08-2008
Released online for download: 08-28-2008
Author of eBook: Sempf, Bill

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Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies

Chapter One

Wading into Visual Basic

In This Chapter

* Seeing where Visual Basic fits in with .NET

* Writing your first Visual Basic 2008 program

* Exploiting the newfound power of Visual Basic

To get started with Visual Basic 2008, I recommend that you jump right in and write software! And to help you with such an assertive approach, this chapter gives you just what you need to test the waters of the Visual Basic pool and get comfortable with its place in the larger Visual Studio environment.

Then you can really get your feet wet as you build Hello World - your first VB 2008 Windows Forms application - right here in the first few pages! You find out how to launch Visual Studio 2008 (the development tool for your VB applications), how to start a new project, and how to build a form visually and make it work with code.

Also in this chapter, I give you a glimpse into the deeper power of Visual Basic. Specifically, I introduce how VB 2008 integrates with the Microsoft .NET Framework and offer insight into what that ... read full excerpt from Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies ebook

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