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Stephens' Visual Basic Programming 24-Hour Trainer [With DVD] (Out of print)

AUTHOR Stephens, Rod
PUBLISHER Wrox Press (02/08/2011)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)
Description

Learn to program with Visual Basic from an expert

As a well-known authority on Microsoft programming, Rod Stephens has developed a clear and compelling approach to teaching programming languages. With this book-and-video package, he applies his skills by showing you how to use Visual Basic to build robust software applications. Assuming little or no programming experience, the self-paced lessons with step-by-step instructions teach you the concepts and techniques of programming with Visual Basic. The tutorials on the DVD reinforce learning, helping you to quickly master the skills required for effective Visual Basic programming.

Stephens' Visual Basic Programming 24-Hour Trainer:

  • Shows you how to read and write files and interact with databases
  • Explains how to write, debug, and run desktop applications that interact with the user and the computer
  • Looks at ways to perform calculations, manipulate files and strings, and produce printouts
  • Details how to use the Entity Framework to manipulate databases
  • Describes Visual Basic's most useful controls and explains how to add them to forms, set their properties, and interact with them in code
  • Shows you how to use LINQ to Objects to perform complex queries of data without a lot of complicated code

    • On the DVD

    Don't just learn--do!

    The lessons within the book are each accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD--hours of video tutorials!

    You'll learn to:

  • Get started with the Visual Studio integrated development environment
  • Use varibles and perform calculations
  • Debug code and reuse code with procedures
  • Define class methods and events
  • Make menus, tool strips, and status strips
  • Create and display new forms
  • Build custom dialogs
  • Use arrays and collections
  • Handle errors and prevent bugs
  • Make generic classes
  • Use inheritance and polymorphism
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    Product Format
    Product Details
    ISBN-13: 9780470943359
    ISBN-10: 0470943351
    Content Language: English
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    Page Count: 504
    Carton Quantity: 10
    Product Dimensions: 7.47 x 1.03 x 9.21 inches
    Weight: 1.91 pound(s)
    Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents, Illustrated
    Country of Origin: US
    Subject Information
    BISAC Categories
    Computers | Languages - Visual BASIC
    Computers | Programming - Microsoft
    Dewey Decimal: 005.276
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    Learn to program with Visual Basic from an expert

    As a well-known authority on Microsoft programming, Rod Stephens has developed a clear and compelling approach to teaching programming languages. With this book-and-video package, he applies his skills by showing you how to use Visual Basic to build robust software applications. Assuming little or no programming experience, the self-paced lessons with step-by-step instructions teach you the concepts and techniques of programming with Visual Basic. The tutorials on the DVD reinforce learning, helping you to quickly master the skills required for effective Visual Basic programming.

    Stephens' Visual Basic Programming 24-Hour Trainer:

  • Shows you how to read and write files and interact with databases
  • Explains how to write, debug, and run desktop applications that interact with the user and the computer
  • Looks at ways to perform calculations, manipulate files and strings, and produce printouts
  • Details how to use the Entity Framework to manipulate databases
  • Describes Visual Basic's most useful controls and explains how to add them to forms, set their properties, and interact with them in code
  • Shows you how to use LINQ to Objects to perform complex queries of data without a lot of complicated code

    • On the DVD

    Don't just learn--do!

    The lessons within the book are each accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD--hours of video tutorials!

    You'll learn to:

  • Get started with the Visual Studio integrated development environment
  • Use varibles and perform calculations
  • Debug code and reuse code with procedures
  • Define class methods and events
  • Make menus, tool strips, and status strips
  • Create and display new forms
  • Build custom dialogs
  • Use arrays and collections
  • Handle errors and prevent bugs
  • Make generic classes
  • Use inheritance and polymorphism
    • Show More
    Author: Stephens, Rod
    In a previous incarnation, Rod Stephens was a mathematician. During his stint at MIT, he discovered the joys of algorithms and graphics, and has been programming professionally ever since. During his career, he has worked on an eclectic assortment of applications spanning such topics as repair dispatch, telephone switch programming, tax processing, and training for professional football players. Rod has written more than a dozen books that have been translated into half a dozen different languages, and more than 200 magazine articles covering Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Java. He is a columnist for Hardcore Visual Basic. Rod's popular website, VB Helper ( http: //www.vb-helper.com) receives several million hits per month and contains more than a thousand pages of tips, tricks, and example code for Visual Basic programmers.
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