Moving to VB.NET: Strategies, Concepts, and Code
Published on 15. June 2001
XXI, 569 pages
978-1-4302-1149-5 (ISBN)
Description
You'vE PROBABLY BEEN HEARING ABOUT Microsoft's .NET Framework and the new features ofVisual Basic.NET. Perhaps you've read articles about it in magazines. Perhaps you've read promotional material from Microsoft. Perhaps you've even played with one ofthe beta versions. Regardless of howyou've learned about it, you're probably feeling a bit over whelmed. It's such a massive change both in language and approach that it's difficult to sort out the reality from the marketing and difficult to decide where o ne should actually start when approaching this new technology. That's what this book is about. It's about the priorities you should use in learning .NET and the strategies you should use in deciding how and when to deploy .NET. It's about the concepts you need to know in order to understand the new features ofVisual Basic.NET and how they will influence the way you write code under this new framework. And it's about the changes in the Visual Basic language itself.
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Publishing group
APRESS
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XXI, 569 p. 42 illus.
File size
46,88 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4302-1149-5 (9781430211495)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4302-1149-5
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
06/2001
Apress
€32.09
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Person
Daniel Appleman is the president of Desaware Inc., a developer of add-on products and components for Microsoft Visual Studio, including SpyWorks, StateCoder, and the NT Service Toolkit for .NET languages and VB6. He is a cofounder of Apress, a publishing company specializing in high-quality professional level books for computer programmers and IT professionals. He is the author of numerous books, including Moving to VB .NET: Strategies, Concepts and Code, How Computer Programming Works, and Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, and he is the author of a series of eBooks on .NET-related topics.
Content
Introduction.- Strategies: 1. Where Should You Begin? About keeping technology in context and how VB.NET is not just marketing hype, but represents (dramatic, unbelievable) change; 2. Facing VB.NET, Without Fear or Panic: About the human factors and business factors faced by VB developers. The fact that VB.NET isn't compatible with VB and the need to carefully determine when and how to adopt this new technology; 3. Adoption Strategies: About adoption scenarios, the wisdom of porting and the costs involved in learning this new technology.- Concepts: These are the most important core concepts that VB6 programmers must understand before they begin programming in .NET. They are the areas where VB programmers are most likely to be betrayed by their previous habits.
