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Accelerated VB 2008

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Authors:
  1. Guy Fouché
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  2. Trey Nash
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  • Every VB programmer, experienced or new, needs to know what this book covers - more comprehensively, concisely, and deeply than any other
  • First book to provide detailed discussion of the new VB 9.0 language features and how to exploit them for performance
  • Valuable as both a rapid tutorial and a permanent reference

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. VB 2008 Overview

    Pages 1-10

  3. VB 2008 Syntax

    Pages 11-33

  4. Classes and Structures

    Pages 35-67

  5. Methods, Properties, and Fields

    Pages 69-84

  6. VB 2008 and the CLR

    Pages 85-96

  7. Interfaces

    Pages 97-115

  8. Operator Overloading

    Pages 117-132

  9. Exception Handling

    Pages 133-165

  10. Working with Strings

    Pages 167-196

  11. Arrays and Collections

    Pages 197-215

  12. Delegates and Events

    Pages 217-235

  13. Generics

    Pages 237-270

  14. Threading

    Pages 271-316

  15. VB 2008 Best Practices

    Pages 317-372

  16. LINQ with VB 2008

    Pages 373-416

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 417-441
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About this book

Visual Basic 2008 offers powerful new features, and Accelerated VB 2008 is the fastest path to mastering them, and the rest of Visual Basic, for both experienced Visual Basic programmers moving to VB 2008 and programmers moving to Visual Basic 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 Visual Basic 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 many programming tasks. You'll also learn best practices that ensure your code will be efficient, reusable, and robust. Why spend months or years discovering the best ways to design and code VB when this book will show you how to do things the right way, right from the start?

  • Comprehensively and concisely explains both Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Basic 2008 features
  • Focuses on the language itself and on how to use Visual Basic 2008 proficiently for all .NET application development
  • Concentrates on how VB features work and how to best use them for robust, high–performance code

About the authors

Trey Nash is an escalation engineer at Microsoft working on the Windows operating systems as well as various other products. When he is not working feverishly within the bowels of the operating system, he is delivering training on .NET Platform debugging as well as user mode and kernel mode debugging on the Windows platform. Prior to working at Microsoft, he was a principal software engineer working on security solutions at Credant Technologies, a market-leading security software company. He also enjoined a stint at a large Bluetooth company developing Bluetooth solutions for the release of Microsoft Vista. Before that, he called Macromedia, Inc. home for five years. At Macromedia, he worked on a cross-product engineering team for several years, designing solutions for a wide range of products throughout the company, including Flash, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver. He specialized in COM/DCOM using C/C++/ATL until the .NET revolution. He's been glued to computers ever since he scored his first, a TI-99/4A, when he was a mere 13 years old. He astounded his parents by turning a childhood obsession into a decent-paying career, much to their dismay. Trey received his bachelor of science and his master of engineering degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University. When he's not sitting in front of a computer, you can find him working in his garage, playing his piano, brushing up on a foreign language (Russian and Icelandic are the current favorites), or playing ice hockey.

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