Fully updated for Windows 8 support, .NET 4.5, and Windows Phone
development, this is the most comprehensive, practical reference to
modern programming with Visual Basic 2012. Written by Visual Basic
MVP Alessandro Del Sole, a long-time leader of the global VB
community, this book illuminates the core of the VB language and
demonstrates its effective use in many current programming
scenarios. Del Sole covers both Visual Basic 2012 Professional
Edition for professional developers and the Express Edition for
hobbyists, novices, and students. Writing for VB programmers at all
levels of experience, he walks through using VB 2012 for data
access, Windows desktop/Windows Phone user interface development,
networking, communication, and much more. For those moving from
structured languages-including VB 6-Del Sole offers detailed
guidance on building effective object-oriented code. He also
demonstrates how to make the most of Microsoft's updated .NET 4.5
platform to write more robust and powerful software. Detailed
information on how to... ? Understand the Visual Studio 2012 IDE,
.NET Framework 4.5, and the anatomy of a VB 2012 application ?
Debug VB applications and implement error handling and exceptions ?
Build efficient object-oriented software with classes, objects,
namespaces, and inheritance ? Work with advanced object-oriented
features, including interfaces, generics, delegates, events, and
collections ? Access data with LINQ-including LINQ to Objects, SQL,
DataSets, Entities, XML, and Parallel LINQ ? Build modern Windows
applications with WPF ? Develop web-centric applications using
ASP.NET, Silverlight 5, and Windows Azure Services cloud computing
? Use advanced .NET 4.5 platform capabilities, including
asynchronous programming, multithreading, parallel programming ?
Build apps for Windows Phone ? Test code with unit tests, TDD, and
code contracts ? Deploy apps efficiently with InstallShield for
Visual Studio and ClickOnce
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