Author(s): Steven Roman, Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax
Publisher: O'Reilly
Year: Aug 2001
ISBN: 0596000928
Language: English
File type: PDF
Pages: 654
Size (for download): 1.4 MB
The extensive changes to the language and the introduction of the .NET platform make a reference guide to the Visual Basic language more essential than ever. At the same time, they make it easy to delineate this book's subject matter. This is a book that focuses on the language elements of Visual Basic .NET? on its statements, functions, procedures, directives, and objects (notably the Err and Collection objects).
There are literally hundreds of books lining the shelves on how to program using Visual Basic, and they will no doubt be joined by a flood of books on how to program in VB .NET. The majority of these books assume that you're a complete novice and slowly introduce you to such concepts as variables, arrays, and looping structures.
This is a different kind of book, however. It is a detailed, professional reference to the VB .NET language?a reference that you can turn to if you want to jog your memory about a particular language element or a particular parameter. You're also looking for a reference that you can turn to when you're having difficulty programming and need to review the rules for using a particular language element, or when you want to check that there isn't some "gotcha" you've overlooked that is associated with a particular language element.
In addition, we believe this book will serve as the main reference for VB 6 programmers who are upgrading to VB .NET. To this end, we have devoted considerable space to the extensive language differences between VB 6 and VB .NET. For each relevant language entry, we have included a "VB .NET/VB 6 Differences" section that details the differences in the operation of the language element between VB 6 and VB .NET.
Need to make sense of the many changes to Visual Basic for the new .NET platform? VB .NET Language in a Nutshell introduces the important aspects of the language and explains the .NET framework. An alphabetical reference covers the functions, statements, directives, objects, and object members that make up the VB .NET language. To ease the transition, each language element includes a "VB .NET/VB 6 Differences" section.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Variables and Data Types
Chapter 3 - Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Chapter 4 - The .NET Framework: General Concepts
Chapter 5 - The .NET Framework Class Library
Chapter 6 - Delegates and Events
Chapter 7 - Error Handling in VB .NET
Chapter 8 - The Language Reference
Appendix A - What's New and Different in VB .NET
Appendix B - Language Elements by Category
Appendix C - Operators
Appendix D - Constants and Enumerations
Appendix E - The VB .NET Command-Line Compiler
Appendix F - VB 6 Language Elements Not Supported by VB .NET
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