When Microsoft introduced the Visual Basic .NET programminglanguage, as part of its move to the .NET Framework twoyears ago, many developers willingly made the switch.Millions of others, however, continued to stick with VisualBasic 6. They weren’t ready for such a radical change, whichincluded an object-oriented environment similar to Java.They liked the old Visual Basic just fine.In an effort to win over those diehard VB6 developers, thecompany has included a new version of VB.NET in its upcomingnext generation release of the Visual Studio .NETdevelopment platform. Visual Basic 2005 comes withinnovative language constructs, new compiler features,dramatically enhanced productivity and an improved debuggingexperience. The language’s new version is now available inbeta release, and Microsoft is encouraging developers togive it a test drive.Visual Basic 2005: A Developer’s Notebook provides the idealtest track. With nearly 50 hands-on projects, this practicalintroduction to VB 2005 will bring you up to speed on allthe new features of this language by allowing you to workwith them directly. The book summarizes the changes that VB2005 brings, and tells you how to acquire, install andconfigure the beta version of VB 2005 SDK. Each project orexperiment explores a different feature, with emphasis onchanges that can increase productivity, simplify programmingtasks, and help you add new functionality to yourapplications.This one-of-a-kind book also offers suggestions for furtherexperimentation, links to on-line documentation and othersources of information, and practical notes and warningsfrom the author.The new Developer’s Notebooks series from O’Reilly offers anin-depthfirst look at important new tools for softwaredevelopers. Emphasizing example over explanation andpractice over theory, they focus on learning by doing you’llget the goods straight from the masters, in an informal andcode-intensive style. For those who want to get up speedwith VB 2005 right away, this is the perfect all lab, nolecture guide.
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