murach's Visual Basic 2010

Learn to develop Windows applications.
Build database applications.
Learn new 2010 features.
14 Real-world applications.

You'll find that this book is packed with the information you need, delivered in a way that's made earlier editions such favorites among professional developers:
- It's concise, practical, and crystal-clear in telling you what you need to know;
- It shows you how to get the most from Visual Studio 2010 as you design, code, debug, and deploy Windows Forms applications using VB 2010;
- It gives you solid training in the essential skills that you'll use every day, including data validation, handling numeric, date, and string data, working with arrays & collections, handling exceptions, working with text, binary, and XML files, & understanding how OOP works;
- It gives you a 4-chapter section on database programming, far more than you'll find in any other VB book, even though database handling is essential in business applications;
- It introduces you to LINQ, the .NET feature lets you use VB to query almost any data source, from databases to arrays to XML files;
- It shows you how to build real-world applications so you always see how the features you're learning interact with each other;
- It gives you chapter exercises that let you practice what you're learning & apply your skills in new ways.