This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day. If you're a seasoned .NET developer, beginning Visual Basic programmer, or a developer seeking a simple and clear migration path from VB6 to Visual Basic 2005, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook delivers a practical collection of problem-solving recipes for a broad range of Visual Basic programming tasks.

The concise solutions and examples in the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook range from simple tasks to the more complex, organized by the types of problems you need to solve. Nearly every recipe contains a complete, documented code sample showing you how to solve the specific problem, as well as a discussion of how the underlying technology works and that outlines alternatives, limitations, and other considerations. As with all O'Reilly Cookbooks, each recipe helps you quickly understand a problem, learn how to solve it, and anticipate potential tradeoffs or ramifications.

Useful features of the book include:

• Over 300 recipes written in the familiar O'Reilly Problem-Solution-Discussion format

• Hundreds of code snippets, examples, and complete solutions available for download

• VB6 updates to alert VB6 programmers to code-breaking changes in Visual Basic 2005

• Recipes that target Visual Basic 2005 features not included in previous releases

• Code examples covering everyday data manipulation techniques and language fundamentals

• Advanced projects focusing on multimedia and mathematical transformations using linear algebraic methods

• Specialized topics covering files and file systems, printing, and databases

In addition, you'll find chapters on cryptography and compression, graphics, and special programming techniques. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook is sure to save you time, serving up the code you need, when you need it.

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 14 Ratings

Useful, but also contains filler - 2007-07-09
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There are various sections in this book that are pretty basic and unnecessary to even an amateur programmer but there are also lots of other sections that are just chock full of great stuff and even advanced programmers would benefit from them. It also suffers from the common tendency to say very simple things using a lot of words in order to take up a lot of space. I think I even found a tip or two which show up twice in different sections. That being said, there's still a whole lot of worthwhile material in this book.

Hidden Cost and Headaches - 2009-02-03
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Even thou the book is very good (not for beginners) it does not provide you with the code that is in the book. The book tells you that the code is at a website [...]. To download the web site they gives you a 10 day trial period but you have to give them you credit card. Even if you go through the procedure to cancel your account they will still charge you $[...] a month and will not reply to any attempt when you try to contact them. This company is feeding off the author's hard work in providing an educational and informative book on programming.

My most used VB.NET reference - 2009-10-15
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I am a professional VB.NET developer. Of the several dozen VB books I have purchased, this book by far gets the most use. It's especially useful if you've never tried to perform a particular task in VB.NET before. The book is great for a fundamental "How to" for getting a job done. If I need more detail on a topic I will use another reference. The book is not meant to give exhaustive detail on each topic.

Good Book - 2008-10-26
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This is a good book for people never work with .NET. If you have some experience with VB.NET you'll find it too basic.

very good reference - 2008-07-11
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As with most O'Reilly books, the reader is treated to a very good overview of the topic at hand. I'd recommend this book to anyone who has some experience with pre-.NET versions of VB and who needs to make the move to the .NET version. I found the chapters on strings and files especially helpful.

I would like to have seen more information on the Crystal Report control that comes included with VB, as that seems to be the only reasonable way to create integrated reports. I'm finding Bischof's "Crystal Reports .NET Programming" book very helpful in this regard.

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