Book Review #2 – Beginning Visual Basic 2005

Authored by Thearon Willis and Bryan Newsome, and published by Wiley Dreamtech, this book is ideal for beginners.

This book is for those who want to learn application development, and covers fundamentals of Visual Basic language. A brief coverage of .Net is also included. Project creation and adding forms and writing code to handle common programming routines are taught. Note that the datatbase used is SQL Server 2005. However, the explanation is not based on a particular domain so falls short covering end to end knowledge badly required by young programmers.

Brief coverage of web services, mobile devices and ado .net is included. XML is covered very briefly.

The book fairly detailed in its explanation and coverage is exhaustive in many chapters.

All in all a good book for one who is looking to get a detailed exposure to application development.

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