Murach's Visual Basic 2005

"Your Visual Basic .NET is by far the best book on the market! Had I bought your book first, I would have saved myself lots of dollars and several months' time." Bob Kaplan, Jr., Louisville, Kentucky

That's what one .NET developer said about the first edition of our introductory VB book. Now, this new edition is even more effective at turning you into a skilled VB 2005 developer...and at saving you time and money in the process.

Of course, it teaches you all the new language features that make VB 2005 such an outstanding development tool, like:

• Data sources and new data controls for doing database processing with little or no code.
• Generics to save casting and restrict collections to a specific type.
• Code snippets to save time on repetitive coding.
• Intellisense filtering so you can more easily find and designate often-used coding elements.
• ClickOnce deployment once your application is finished.
• and more!

But this book also teaches you all of the Visual Basic features that have carried over from earlier editions of VB and that you'll use every day in business applications. Like:

• Validating data.
• Handling numeric, date, and string data
• Working with arrays and collections.
• Handling exceptions.
• Working with text, binary, and XML files.