Filled with the ingredients developers need--code samples, instructions, and solutions to common problems--this book is the logical place for developers to start building projects and learning more about Visual Basic .NET.
Next time you hit the wall with a tough Visual Basic .NET problem, get the code behind the solution—and solve it the right way. This Programmer’s Cookbook provides at-a-glance reference to hundreds of Visual Basic .NET programming scenarios using a concise problem/solution format. The book’s organized so you can quickly zero in on the topics and answers you need—with practical examples, code snippets, best practices, and shortcuts to get the job done.
No half-baked solutions. Get expert code from expert developers.
- Get hundreds of recipes covering every application type—from Microsoft Windows to Web pages, Web services, remote components, and Windows services.
- Lear when to use lower-level Win32 APIs and COM components to supplement the Microsoft .NET Framework.
- Discover practical ways to deal with XML data and handle data binding with Microsoft ADO.NET.
- Build object-oriented components from scratch to access FTP sites, contact POP mail servers, and work with vectors, fractions, and complex numbers.
- Extend the reach of your Windows applications with WMI.
- Tackle advanced techniques for multithreading, .NET Remoting, reflection, and cryptography.
- Uncover free third-party components to read zip files, write PDF documents, show menus in Microsoft ASP.NET, and more.
- Get all the book’s code online.
About the Author
Matthew MacDonald is the author of several popular programming books, including Microsoft .NET Distributed Applications, The Book of VB .NET, and ASP.NET: The Complete Reference. He writes a column for Inside Visual Basic and is a regular contributor to ASPToday, C#Today, Hardcore Visual Basic, and other periodicals. A Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, with a passion for emerging technologies, Matthew spends his time writing, developing, and teaching.