When Microsoft made Visual Basic into an object-oriented programming
language, millions of VB developers resisted the change to the .NET
platform. Now, after integrating feedback from their customers and
creating Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft finally has the right carrot.
Visual Basic 2005 offers the power of the .NET platform, yet restores
the speed and convenience of Visual Basic. Accordingly, we've revised
the classic in a Nutshell guide to the Visual Basic language to cover
the Visual Basic 2005 version and all of its new features.
Unlike other books on the subject, Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell, 3rd
Edition doesn't assume you're a novice. It's a detailed, professional
reference to the Visual Basic language-a reference that you can use to
jog your memory about a particular language element or parameter. It'll
also come in handy when you want to make sure that there isn't some
"gotcha" you've overlooked with a particular language feature.
The book is divided into three major parts: Part I introduces the main
features and concepts behind Visual Basic programming; Part II
thoroughly details all the functions, statements, directives, objects,
and object members that make up the Visual Basic language; and Part III
contains a series of helpful appendices. Some of the new features
covered include Generics, a convenient new library called My Namespace,
and the operators used to manipulate data in Visual Basic.
No matter how much experience you have programming with Visual Basic,
you want Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition close by, both
as a standard reference guide and as a tool for troubleshooting and
identifying programming problems.
