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Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! (PRO-Developer)
by Patrice Pelland
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Microsoft Press (2008-03-07)
ISBN: 0735625417
EAN: 9780735625419
Dewy Decimal #: 005.2768
Paperback: 256 pages
SKU: T081812-5302
Condition: New
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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.
Key Book Benefits
This dynamic, full-color, highly-visual book is designed to help novice programmers build fundamental programming skills for Windows® quickly and easily
Provides a quick-start, project-based approach!
Provides complete software for Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition and all the instructions needed to understand and put those tools to work right away
Features a complete desktop application that can be easily modified and reused a great learn-by-doing example
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Customer Reviews
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You can download the software for free at MS site !
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-11-20
Considering the previous comments that this was written based on beta code and the fact not mentioned that you can download the VB studio software for free from microsoft why bother buying the book. You can also download SQL server, C++, .... for free. Save your money and spend it on a better book without the software. So if your buying this because of the software you should re-evaluate your rational. Software available for free so your really buying just the book.
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Build some things but not all
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-11-10
This book was written based on Beta code.
I found that some things worked and some didn't, with absolutely NO troubleshooting guide to help explain why some of the code in the book gives errors - even when using the software supplied on the CD.
Some examples worked OK - some created seemingly unfixable errors. This is extremely frustrating since, if you are like me, you will assume that you have done something wrong when really it is a Microsoft problem!
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Little help!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-08-29
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I bought two books to help me with a small VB program I needed to write. I have a little conceptual knowledge of programming from a long time ago.
This book is written specifically for VB Express Edition. I opened the book and was lost in the first two pages. I already knew it was not going to be the answer. I switched to VB 2008 by Michael Halvorson and completed my program with little difficulty. A few times I went back to this book, but could never figure out what I needed. I found much greater help online than in this book. I am an educator. I know there are people who know their subject matter and others who can teach their subject matter. Patrice Pelland's Build a Program Now may be technically correct, but a beginning programmer will not be helped by this book.
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It's the Book!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-06-26
It's a very cool book, if you don't know anything about visual basic this is the book you should buy, but if you have some skills in visual basic look for another book
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Not quite what it claims to be
Rating (2)
Date: 2008-05-16
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I purchased this book on an impulse thinking that it covered Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition only to find out later (on page viii of the Introduction) that the book was written based on the prerelease software. Specifically, it was based on the November 2007 release candidate version of VB 2008 Express. It didn't mention this anywhere on the front or back cover of the book.
I have read the first few chapters and it appears to be an okay book considering that its a MSPress book. Still, I do not care for books written based on beta or release candidate software because something always ends up different when the software is finally released. Burying this information on the 8th page of the book is bad form.
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