Programming Visual Basic 2008

Posted by Tim Patrick on June 9, 2008

My latest software development book, Programming Visual Basic 2008, is now available at better bookstores everywhere. If you don’t have one of those better bookstores in your neighborhood, you can also purchase the book online, from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, or other resellers of general and technical books.

Programming Visual Basic 2008

by Tim Patrick

To purchase this book from Amazon.com, click here.

Programming Visual Basic 2008, published by O’Reilly Media, provides a full overview of Microsoft’s Visual Basic 2008 programming language, including all of the new LINQ features. The book is designed for beginning to intermediate developers, and is also useful for experienced programmers who need to learn Visual Basic and .NET. For those of you who think that reading casually is for the birds, the book also includes a full database-driven software application for you to play with. The code implements a Library Management system, and its code is slowly built up through the chapters of the book.

Once you’ve gone through the book, please post any comments you have about the text on this blog entry. I look forward to hearing from you.

Important Note for Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition Users

Microsoft has identified a bug in the Express Edition of Visual Basic 2008 that may prevent some readers from installing the ‘VSI’ portion of the book’s source code download. A workaround from Microsoft is available. To access the workaround, click here for the publisher’s page for the book. On that page, click on the Examples link near the left side of the page. From the list of files that appears, download these two files:

  • Info-VB2008_Express_VSI_Issue.txt
  • Fix-VB2008_Express_VSI_Issue.reg

The ‘Fix’ file contains the workaround. The ‘Info’ file provides instructions for installing the workaround.
This article was posted on June 9, 2008 by Tim Patrick.
Categories: General, Software, Tim's Writings. Tags: , , . This post has 2 comments.

2 Responses to “Programming Visual Basic 2008”

  1. Dan Bolinger, on June 12th, 2008 at 9:59 pm Said:

    Does it have pictures? I am ahhh visually basic you see
    I just kill myself.

  2. Ronny G Merkel, on June 28th, 2008 at 9:29 am Said:

    Cannot install the books Project Templates into VB 2008 Express. Others have had this problem also. Hope you can help.

    Ron

    Reply from Tim: See updated content within this blog entry.

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