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Murach's Visual Basic 2008
By: Anne Boehm
All the Murach books are absolutely terrific - we highly recommend anything by this publisher.

If you're new to VB development...or if you're upgrading to VB 2008 and are looking for an up-to-date reference...you'll find that this book is packed with the information you need, delivered in a way that's made earlier editions such favorites among professional developers:

It's concise, practical, and crystal-clear in telling you what you need to know.
It shows you how to get the most from Visual Studio 2008 as you design, code, debug, and deploy Windows Forms applications using VB 2008.
It gives you solid training in the essential skills that you'll use every day, including data validation...handling numeric, date, and string data…working with arrays and collections...handling exceptions...working with text, binary, and XML files...and understanding how OOP works.
It introduces you to LINQ, the biggest news in VB 2008. This exciting new feature lets you use VB to query almost any data source, from databases to arrays to XML files. So chapter 23 shows you what LINQ can do and prepares you for in-depth LINQ training later on.
It gives you a 4-chapter section on database programming...far more than you'll find in any other VB book, even though database handling is essential in business applications.
It shows you how to build real-world applications so you always see how the features you're learning interact with each other.
It gives you chapter exercises that let you practice what you're learning and apply your skills in new ways.

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By: Thearon Willis, Bryan Newsome

Features expanded coverage of Windows Vista, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, and Windows Communication Foundation
All code and examples are updated to cover the latest version of VB and the .NET 3.5 Framework
62 percent of developers use some form of Visual Basic; this book teaches readers the basics and gets them programming with one of Microsoft's most popular development languages
Readers quickly learn to write applications for Windows, the Web, and mobile devices
Also covers object-oriented programming, creating custom controls, working with databases, creating menus, and working with graphics
Other topics include building class libraries, Web services and .NET remoting, and deploying applications

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By: Patrice Pelland
In this lively, eye-opening, hands-on book, all you need is a computer and the desire to learn how to program with Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition. Featuring a full edition of the software, this fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming project a desktop weather-reporting application from start to finish. You ll get an introduction to the Microsoft Visual Studio® development environment and learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual Basic Express Edition to work right away creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first ready-to-use program. You ll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources.

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By: Bill Evjen, Billy Hollis, Bill Sheldon, Kent Sharkey
The 2008 version of Visual Basic is tremendously enhanced and introduces dramatic new concepts, techniques, and features to this popular object-oriented language. Written by an elite author team who are sympathetic to the challenges of learning VB 2008, this comprehensive book provides a clear and concise approach to using VB 2008 in the ever-expanding .NET world.
This book focuses on using the latest and most powerful tools from the Microsoft arsenal within your Visual Basic solutions. Looking closely at LINQ, AJAX, a new Visual Studio and more, you'll be able to take lessons from this book and apply them to what you are doing today. You'll examine everything from the .NET Framework to the best practices for deploying .NET applications to database access and integrating with other technologies, such as COM and XML.

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By: Rod Stephens
Providing programmers and developers of all skill levels with a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic (VB) 2008, Microsoft MVP Rod Stephenspresents a broad, solid understanding of essential topics on the latest version of VB. He explains the forms, controls, and other objects that VB furnishes for building applications in a modern windows environment. Plus, he examines the powerful development environment that makes VB such a productive language, and he delves into the VB language itself to show you how to use it to perform an array of important development tasks.
New examples and extensively revised and retested code that complies with the 2008 release help you obtain a firm understanding of VB 2008. Extensive appendixes prove to be particularly useful to help you translate from the languages you already know into the corresponding VB syntax. Ultimately, you'll find coverage of the technologies you need in order to build sophisticated applications with VB 2008.