This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and
not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face
every day. If you're a seasoned .NET developer, beginning Visual Basic
programmer, or a developer seeking a simple and clear migration path
from VB6 to Visual Basic 2005, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook delivers
a practical collection of problem-solving recipes for a broad range of
Visual Basic programming tasks.
The concise solutions and examples in the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook
range from simple tasks to the more complex, organized by the types of
problems you need to solve. Nearly every recipe contains a complete,
documented code sample showing you how to solve the specific problem, as
well as a discussion of how the underlying technology works and that
outlines alternatives, limitations, and other considerations. As with
all O'Reilly Cookbooks, each recipe helps you quickly understand a
problem, learn how to solve it, and anticipate potential tradeoffs or
ramifications.
Useful features of the book include:
- Over 300 recipes written in the familiar O'Reilly
Problem-Solution-Discussion format
- Hundreds of code snippets, examples, and complete solutions available
for download
- VB6 updates to alert VB6 programmers to code-breaking changes in
Visual Basic 2005
- Recipes that target Visual Basic 2005 features not included in
previous releases
- Code examples covering everyday data manipulation techniques and
language fundamentals
- Advanced projects focusing on multimedia and mathematical
transformations using linear algebraic methods
- Specialized topics covering files and file systems, printing, and
databases
In addition, you'll find chapters on cryptography and compression,
graphics, and special programming techniques. Whether you're a beginner
or an expert, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook is sure to save you time,
serving up the code you need, when you need it.
