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Visual Basic 2010 Programmer's Reference |  | Author: Rod Stephens
Publisher: Wrox
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 25066
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Pages: 1272
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768
ASIN: B003TQKJCG
Publication Date: June 17, 2010
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Product Description
Visual Basic expert Rod Stephens shows you how to leverage the latest features of VB 2010Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) is the most popular programming language in the world, with millions of lines of code used in businesses and applications of all types and sizes. The new release of Visual Basic 2010 is tightly integrated with the Windows operating system and the .NET programming environment. Renowned VB authority Rod Stephens provides a comprehensive guide to Visual Basic programming, including the latest enhancements to the VB language and programming environment with Visual Studio 2010 The tutorial is packed with detailed and practical code examples that show readers how to master all of the features of VB. - Visual Basic authority Rod Stephens presents a must-have resource on Visual Basic, the most popular programming language in the word
- Fully covers the newest features of Visual Basic 2010, such as array literals and initializers, collection initializers, implicit line continuation, Lambda expressions, and more
- Features extensively revised and tested code to ensure compliance with the latest release
With this essential resource, you'll be able to quickly review the details of important programming, objects, properties, methods, and events. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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 Great Resource Book July 19, 2010
Joe Waldin
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have several of Rod Stephen's books. This one is a great reference book jam packed with examples. I have already used the book to get myself out of several jams. Rod provides in-depth information where it is needed. Rod covers everything including WCF and LINQ. The appendices are also a wealth of information. The book download code works and Rod provides great examples. If you want a great resource book to add to your collection, this is the book for you.
Excellent Visual Basic Resource July 26, 2010
Augustus L. Ervin (Greenville, SC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent coverage of Visual Basic in the Visual Studio 2010 environment. Over 1000 pages of reference material including appendices. The book is well written, comprehensive, and concise. A reference book needs a good index and this book has one.
I purchased the book in April, 2010. It is now three months later and I briefed the reference and am writing my first Visual Bssic program in years. The programming environment has changed dramatically and this book is an entensive guide to my requirements. The text offers code within the book and links to many sources for assistance. In addition the author offers help through e-mail assistance, which is very timely. I don't think you can go wrong with this book for the money.
Excellent TextBook in Visual Basic 2010 May 11, 2010
Alberto Torres (Mount Arlington, NJ United States)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Rod Stephens, all times amazed me with his books and this one is not an exception.
The Visual Basic 2010 Programmer's Reference, is a great textbook written with the accumulation of experiences from VB 7.0, 7.1, 8, and VB (9) 2009.
Visual Basic 2010, is the best among the (Visual Basic) .NET, and Rod has been able to present a very good book, that can be use for the beginners as well for the experienced programmers.
VB 2010, the program, is full of good and great features that allow an easy programming, eliminating "almost all errors" from the point of view of the language and allow, more clear and powerful programs. This book is helping to accomplish this and more with very well detailed examples and also with the support of the Wrox and VB-Helper.
The way Rod, presents the many topics in the book, is remarkable for the simplicity he uses to explain every single statement, etc and for the thing, we as programmers are looking for: KNOW-TO, KNOW-HOW, HOW-TO. Rod is very good in each one and the book is clear about all of them.
As in any book, there are some chapters, that are more interesting for the reader.
I have read and worked out the 37 Chapters and the appendices, and the time and money are worth.
Because VB 2010, have not been completely released and still pending more software, we can wait to get the Crystal Reports and other goodies and knowing Rod, will come out with very good new material.
Excellent and to the point June 30, 2010
Derek J. Rouleau (Maine, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm in the process of moving old programs from VB 6 and 2005 to 2010. I was looking for something to get me started LINQ in VB as I have yet to use it and this book has been very helpful. By going through the book and the code examples that I downloaded from the web site I was able to figure out what I needed in less than a hour. Of which I think is pretty good considering I have zero exp with LINQ.
Not only has this given me a jump start with LINQ but it has also helped with the changes from previous versions to 2010. All in all a great reference book
 Total Disaster - How not to write a Kindle book for Software August 3, 2010
J. Lawler
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I only just downloaded this book to the "Kindle for PC" 2 hours ago and I am very disappointed.
First, I tried to return it and Amazon will not return these Kindle books. Second the book is mostly a rehash of the help topics that you get from within VS. Consequently you'd probably guess the writing style might be rather repetitive and monotonous. The author must have put himself to sleep writing this many times.
But the real issue is usability. The Kindle version has very poor hyperlinking. I would think that strong hyperlinking should be outstanding for an ebook. Not so! In fact there is an icon that says "available for download on [...]". No link there either.
Let me say it agin for emphasis. The usability of the Kindle edition is poor. There is no real index. The Kindle for the PC allows me to jump to the table of contents, and there I find an Index that is hyperlinked to an Index section. But guess what? The index entries are not hyperlinked! The publisher needs to be shot and apoligize to its customers, besides returning their money.
Likewise the kindle does not know the concept of page numbers. It places a "Locations" tag in the status bar, such at "Locations 2,613-42" Now that's real helpful!! Not.
Then for the Kindle PC version, would you expect to be able to select the code examples and copy and paste into Visual Studio? Think again. That ain't happening.
I could write more about the actual technical content but why bother? The formatting of this Kindle book is a total disaster. Do not buy it! You can't return it and you'll be totally frustrated with it.
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