Visual Basic 2005 has established itself over the last twelve months as the language of choice for first-time developers moving onto the .NET 2.0 Framework. The language's clear syntax and helpful user-friendly features naturally appeal to developers just starting out on their coding careers.

This book is designed to help this large audience of emerging talents during their first few years in the industry. It is packed with solutions to the common problems that professionals in the field encounter day-in day-out. The book collates these problems and explains their available solutions providing the reader with a succinct explanation of the issues they are facing and a break-down of how the problem can be solved. A complete fully-working code sample is provided for each recipe to put the reader's development back on track.

I absolutely love the book. This is the first book I have read that uses a cookbook style approach of presenting many common development problems and their solutions. -- David Hayden, .NET Developer

Mastering .NET development is as much about understanding the functionality of the .NET Framework as it is about the syntax and grammar of your chosen language. "Visual C# 2005 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach" recognizes this fine balance. This book meets your need for fast, effective solutions to the difficulties you encounter in your coding projects.

The recipes included in this book have been chosen and written with emerging pros in mind. The book features an equal balance of code and text. The supplied code gives you everything you need to solve the problem at hand, while the accompanying text provides supporting information.

This is a fully up-to-date reference for .NET 2.0 programmers. All code comes as a stand-alone Visual Studio 2005 solution. The book even covers advanced concepts that take you past basic recipe solutionsyoull be able to distill entire concepts and theories.

Mastering the development of .NET 4.0 applications in C# is less about knowing the Visual C# 2010 language and more about knowing how to use the functionality of the .NET framework class library most effectively. Visual C# 2010 Recipes explores the breadth of the .NET Framework class library and provides specific solutions to common and interesting programming problems. Each recipe is presented in a succinct problem/solution format and is accompanied by a working code sample to help you understand the concept and quickly apply it.

When you are facing a Visual C# 2010 problem, this book likely contains a recipeprovidingthe solutionor at least points you in the right direction. Even if you are simply looking to broaden your knowledge of the .NET framework class library, Visual C# 2010 Recipes is the perfect resource to assist you.

This is an updated reference for .NET 4.0 programmers. All code samples come as stand-alone Visual Studio 2010 solutions for your convenience. What you'll learn Clear, concise answers to myriad problems that occur during day-to-day C# 2010 development How to write code according to Microsoft's best practice guidelines Answers to questions covering everything from workflow to XML processing Who this book is for

While there are few developers who do not stand to learn something from this book's concise, solution-oriented format, it is primarily aimed at emerging software professionals taking their first steps into the IT marketplace. These newly qualified and relatively inexperienced developers will gain the most from the book's comprehensive content and fast-access design, which is aimed at helping them cope with the problems and pitfalls that regularly occur when learning a new technology. Table of Contents Application Development Data Manipulation Application Domains, Reflection, and Metadata Threads, Processes, and Synchronization Files, Directories, and I/O XML Processing Windows Forms Graphics, Multimedia, and Printing Database Access Networking Security and Cryptography Unmanaged Code Interoperability Commonly Used Interfaces and Patterns Windows Integration Parallel Programming Using LINQ Windows Presentation Foundation

Visual Basic 2008 Recipes is a book of ready-made coding solutions for programmers who don't want spend a lot of time reading. Each chapter addresses a specific problem-domain such as multimedia, database access, XML manipulation, etc. Each chapter then presents a number of common problems, with a solution following each problem. Readers appreciate the recipe format, because they can look up a problem, read one to three pages, implement the solution, and then get on with their work. Recipe books are ideal for those who want to spend their days doing, not reading.