Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook

A Visual Basic Book for seasoned VB.NET developers, as well as those seeking a simple and clear migration path from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic 2005.

This Cookbook delivers the definitive 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 very complex.

Great book. Got something for everybody, October 11, 2006
You got to know the basics of Visual Basic before using this book. This book is a very good reference for learning Visual Basic 2005 and also for the advanced developer. It's good for beginners when you are in the stage of "How do I do this...". It's also includes updates for VB6 programmer who are upgrading to Visual Basic 2005 alerting them about the code breaking changes in Visual Basic 2005. The problems discussed are real-world that you may have faced or will face in your development.

I have this book for a few days and I really like it. It like a How-To book for developers. The book uses the problem-solution approach. All the problems are listed in the index so you can quickly find the recipe that you need. Each topic/recipe has got 3 sections. First is the "problem" which lists what you want to do. The second section is the "solution" for the problem. You will need to download code for the book. You can download the code for the book from the oreilly site. The third section is "discussion" where the authors have explained the solution for easy understanding.

This VB book has got something for everybody from beginners to advanced developers. It's got a lot of time saving solutions to the development problems that you will face. You can also call it a code library with good documented code that you can use in your development. It's the sort of book that can keep handy next to your workstation(You never know when you are in a fix and you need it or you can just pick it up to learn something new that you can use later).

Following are some of the recipe caregories(chapters) in the book
4. Forms, Controls, and Other Useful Objects
5. Strings
6. Numbers and Math
7. Dates and Times
8. Arrays and Collections
9. Graphics
10. Multimedia
11. Printing
12. Files and File Systems
13. Databases
14. Special Programming Techniques
15. Exceptions
16. Cryptography and Compression
17. Web Development

Over 300 common and uncommon tasks Visual Basic 2005 programmers face often are arranged in a solution-oriented set of examples which is based on 'recipes' and formulas but includes code, examples, complete solutions and even advanced projects. Particularly valuable for .NET developers as well as novice Visual Basic students, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook offers up a set of recipes for solving a wide swatch of common problems - and imparts the basics of pros and cons to the solving process. ~ Midwest Book Review