Whether you are new to programming or to Visual Basic 2005, this tutorial gives you practical guidance to build your programming knowledge. Use the real-world exercises to teach yourself the essentials of Visual Basic—and begin creating applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web.

Discover how to:

• Work in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development environment
• Use Toolbox controls to create compelling user interfaces complete with digital photos, menus, toolbars, check boxes, and more
• Add artwork, animation, and special effects to an application
• Use inheritance and other new object-oriented programming capabilities
• Detect, track, and repair bugs in your code
• Store program data using variables, modules, arrays, and collections
• Add sophisticated functions to your applications with Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 classes and methods
• Manage code flow with decision structures, loops, timers, and procedures
• Program interactive Web applications with Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
• Create datacentric applications using Microsoft ADO.NET
• Write custom code for printers and configure dialog boxes for printing
• Migrate Visual Basic 6.0 code to Visual Basic 2005

CD includes all practice exercises.

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