| Need to make sense of the many changes to Visual Basic for the new .NET platform? VB .NET
Language in a Nutshell introduces the important aspects of the language and explains the .NET
framework. An alphabetical reference covers the functions, statements, directives, objects, and object
members that make up the VB .NET language. To ease the transition, each language element
includes a "VB .NET/VB 6 Differences" section.
Microsoft Visual Basic began its life just over ten years ago as a kind of amalgamation of Microsoft's
QBasic programming language and a graphical interface design program developed in part by Alan
Cooper. Since then, it has become by far the most popular programming language in the world, with
an installed base that is estimated at five to eight million developers worldwide.
The tenth anniversary of Visual Basic coincides with the introduction of Microsoft's new .NET platform,
and with a totally revised and revamped version of VB named Visual Basic .NET. The language has
been streamlined and modernized, and many old "compatibility" elements have been dropped from the
language, while other language elements that were implemented as statements are now either
functions or procedures.
In addition, many of you will be glad to hear that Visual Basic is now a fully object-oriented
programming language, with the inclusion of the long sought-after class inheritance, as well as other
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 Syngress IT Security Project Management HandbookLet’s start by stating two assumptions we’re making in this book. First, we’re assuming you have a solid understanding of IT project management. If not, we have provided you with a free download of the book How to Cheat at IT Project Management (visit www.syngress.com/solutions to register this book and download the PDF) so you... | | Pro .NET 1.1 Remoting, Reflection, and ThreadingWhen reading the title of this book, you might ask yourself “Why did they put remoting, reflection, and threading together in one book?” The answer might not seem obvious at first, but after reading this introduction you should understand why these three technologies belong in a developer’s toolkit and in a ... | | Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models (Springer Series in Statistics)
Nonparametric function estimation with stochastic data, otherwise known as smoothing, has been studied by several generations of statisticians. Assisted by the ample computing power in today's servers, desktops, and laptops, smoothing methods have been finding their ways into everyday data analysis by practitioners. While scores of... |
Absolute Beginner's Guide to VBAVisual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a set of tools based on the Visual Basic language. The great thing about using it to enhance Office applications is that it's easier to learn than Visual Basic and it comes with your Office license. After reading this book, the reader will be proficient in the VBA language and will have... | | Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach
The study of electrophysiology has progressed rapidly because of the precise, delicate, and ingenious
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There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from
reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files. This
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If I take a letter, lock it in a safe, hide the safe somewhere in New York, then tell you to read the... |
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