Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself)

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself)

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit provides you with 24 structured lessons with step-by-step guidance to real-world programming tasks for developing Windows applications. Each chapter includes practice exercises, tips, notes, and cautions, providing easy-to-understand advice on how to start programming quickly. Sidebars provide more advanced tips that will ease your migration from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET, or help you as you continue to work with Visual Basic 2005 programming.
The accompanying CD includes Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, which will provide you with a visual integrated development environment for creating Windows applications. The Express Edition makes Windows programming with Visual Basic fun and easy-to-learn. Together with Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit, it's the perfect way for experienced Visual Basic 6.0 developers to try out new features.

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2008 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours)

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2008 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours)

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Visual Basic 2008. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world foundation forged in both technology and business matters, allowing you to learn the essentials of Visual Basic 2008 from the ground up. Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks. The Q&A section, quizzes, and exercises help you build and test your knowledge.
By the Way notes present interesting pieces of information. Did You Know? tips offer advice or teach an easier way to do something. Watch Out! cautions advise you about potential problems and help you steer clear of disaster.
Learn how to…
Use the powerful design environment of Visual Studio 2008
Design feature-rich interfaces using components such as tree views and tabs
Create robust applications using modern error-handling
Draw fast graphics using GDI
Build a database application using ADO.NET
Distribute a Visual Basic 2008 Application
Manipulate the Windows Registry
Create, read, and write text files
Use event-driven techniques to build responsive applications
DVD Includes: Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages in 21 Days

Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages in 21 Days

Teaches the fundamentals of JavaServer Pages in 21 straightforward, example-driven lessons. Sun predicts that more Web developers without Java experience will be migrating to JSP in 2002-2003 and beyond. This is one of few JSP books aimed at this group rather than Java professionals. Packed with hundreds of practical, real-world examples. Written by a proven, experienced author of more than 70 books on Web programming topics. Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages in 21 Days offers a proven tutorial format to teach JSP in 21 example-driven lessons. While many competing JSP books are aimed at Java professionals, this book addresses the needs of the growing number of Web publishing professionals migrating to JavaServer Pages for its ability to create dynamic, interactive Web sites and separate presentation from Java code running behind the scenes. The book starts by explaining the relationship between JSP and Java Servlets and the basics of JSP functions and features. Readers then learn how JSP handles data, interacts with Java components, tracks users, and more. Later chapters discuss debugging, working with databases, XSLT and XML, using the Struts framework from Apache, handling binary data like graphics, and deploying JSP applications. Each topic is illustrated with many working examples that the reader can understand and put to work immediately. Throughout the book the author provides pointers to upcoming developments in JSP 1.3, due in 2003, to ensure readers are prepared for changes in the new version. Steve Holzner is an award-winning author who has been writing about Web programming topics as long as the Web has been around. He's written 72 books on programming topics, and has sold over a million total copies. His books include a number of industry best-sellers including Inside XML. He's a former contributing editor of PC Magazine, graduated from MIT, and received his Ph.D. at Cornell. He's been on the faculty of both MIT and Cornell. His recent books include: Inside XML, 0-7357-1020-1, $49.99, New Riders, 11/00, and Java 2 Black Book, Second Edition 1588800970, $59.99, Coriolis, 6/01.

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours (2nd Edition)

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours (2nd Edition)

A reader's first book for learning SQL, the structured query language for most major database systems. Teaches SQL quickly and easily for those with little or no programming experience. The end user's path to proficiency in SQL. New code examples written to an open source database like MySQL; avoids complexity and teaches practical basics. Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Third Edition presents the key features of SQL (Structured Query Language) in an easy to understand format with updated code examples, notes, diagrams, exercises and quizzes. New material covers more information on transactions, constructs, embedded databases, and object-oriented programming. In this edition, the authors include examples based on a database like MySQL, a very popular open source database. Ryan Stephens and Ron Plew are President and Vice President of Perpetual Technologies, Inc, where their duties include Oracle® database administration and consulting and training in Oracle, SQL and UNIX. They have both been teaching at the college level for over five years as adjunct professors at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. Both are Oracle Certified Professionals. Ryan and Ron have co-authored the following successful books: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, Second Edition, 0672318997, Sams, 3/00, and Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days, Third Edition, 0672316749, Sams, 12/99.

Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)

Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)

Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself)

Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself

Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours teaches the basics of COBOL programming in 24 step-by-step lessons. Each lesson builds on the previous one providing a solid foundation in COBOL programming concepts and techniques. Coupled with the source code and the compiler available from Fujitsu, this hands-on guide is the easiest, fastest way to begin creating standard COBOL compliant code. Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours utilizes the most modern client/server and Internet programming techniques available to COBOL programmers today! Readers build examples based on real-world scenarios not trivial or fictitious ones like our competitors. Business professionals and programmers from other languages will find this hands-on, task-oriented tutorial extremely useful for learning the essential features and concepts of COBOL programming. This book will familiarize business managers with COBOL thus enabling them to more effectively communicate with their IT staff about technical programming issues. Writing a program can be a complex task. By concentrating on one development tool (Fujitsu COBOL) we can guide the reader and get good results every time. There will be no programs that will not compile!

The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility (The Agile Software Development Series)

The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility (The Agile Software Development Series)