作者：Todd Herman, Allen Jones, Matthew MacDonald, Rakesh Rajan
出版日期：April 21, 2008
出版社：Apress
页数：704
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1590599705 ISBN-13: 978-1590599709
文件格式：PDF


Product Description
Sometimes you just need to solve a problem and get on with your work. To that end, Visual Basic 2008 Recipesis a compendium of practical solutions for busy VB .NET programmers.Create time for the more interesting aspects of your VB .NET project bysolving common problems with the practical solutions and dozens of codeexamples in this book. Important new .NET 3.5 technologies, such asWindows Presentation Framework (WPF) and Language Integrated Query(LINQ), are covered, and each chapter addresses a specific problemdomain, including database access, multimedia, XML manipulation,networking, and security. The code is free to download so you can usethe recipes immediately.Take advantage of quality, ready–made solutions to common Visual Basic programming problems.Avoid the tedium of having to reinvent the wheel. Focus instead on the more interesting problems specific to your application.Learn from and be inspired by what the authors have done. Use their work as stepping stones to solve even more complex problems.What you’ll learnCleanly separate user–interface logic from business logic through the use of .NET 3.5’s WPF.Store data to and retrieve data from your relational database using LINQ.Manipulate XML data using LINQ.Make your programs dynamically configurable through the judicious application of reflection.Take advantage of multiple CPU cores by writing multithreaded applications.Integrate multimedia into your Visual Basic projects.Who is this book for?Visual Basic 2008 Recipes is written for Visual Basicdevelopers who have at least some experience in developing Visual Basicsolutions. The book contains recipes appealing to intermediate throughadvanced developers.
About the Author
Todd Herman works for Berico Technologies as a senior developer as partof the intelligence community. He has been programming since hereceived his first computer, a Commodore 64, on his 11th birthday. Hisexperience ranges from developing data–entry software in FoxPro for awater research laboratory to writing biometric applications in VisualBasic for NEC. He currently lives in Virginia with his wife andchildren, spending his free time programming, playing computer games,and watching the Sci–Fi Channel.
He recently set up a blog, which you can find at http://blogs.bericotechnologies.com/todd.
Allen Jones has over 15 years’ experience covering a wide range ofIT disciplines in a variety of sectors; however, his true passion hasalways been software development. Allen is currently chief architect atSmithBayes, a UK–based software firm that develops high–end strategicdecision support software derived from technology used in Formula 1motor racing.
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who hasa passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer fordeveloper journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he’s the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications.In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature andtheoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, andeverything in between, to [email protected].
Rakesh Rajan is a software engineer from India working with US technology at
Trivandrum. He is a Microsoft MVP in C# and an MCSD in .NET. He hasbeen working in .NET for the past three years. You can find him postingat newsgroups, writing articles, working on his own projects, orspeaking about .NET. Visit his site at www.rakeshrajan.com or drop himan e-mail at [email protected].