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Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Developer's Handbook--New from Microsoft Press

Press release: August 24, 2011

Microsoft Press

Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Developer's Handbook

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Sebastopol, CA—Take control of Visual Basic 2010—for everything from basic Windows® and web development to advanced multithreaded applications. Written by Visual Basic experts Klaus Löffelmann and Sarika Calla Purohit, Microsoft® Visual Basic 2010 Developer's Handbook (Microsoft Press, $59.99 USD) provides an in-depth reference on language concepts and features, as well as scenario-based guidance for putting Visual Basic to work. It's ideal whether you're creating new applications with Visual Basic 2010 or upgrading projects built with an earlier version of the language.

Discover how to:

  • Use Visual Basic 2010 for Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation projects
  • Build robust code using object-oriented programming techniques, such as classes and types
  • Work with events and delegates—and add your own events to custom classes
  • Program arrays, collections, and other data structures in the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Solve problems quickly and easily using My namespace in Visual Basic
  • Dive into Microsoft LINQ, including LINQ to XML and LINQ to Entities
  • Tackle threading, multitasking, and multiprocessor development and debugging

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About the Authors

Klaus Löffelmann is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Basic .NET, and has been a professional software developer for over 20 years. He has written several books about Visual Basic, and is the owner and founder of ActiveDevelop in Lippstadt, Germany, a company specializing in software development, localization, technical literature and training/coaching with Microsoft technologies.

View Klaus Löffelmann's full profile page.

Sarika Calla Purohit is a Software Design Engineer Test Lead on the Visual Studio Languages team at Microsoft. She has been a member of the Visual Studio team for over eight years and has contributed to Visual Basic .Net since version 1.1. Most recently, her team was responsible for testing the Visual Basic IDE in Visual Studio 2010.

View Sarika Calla Purohit 's full profile page.

Additional Resources
For more information about the book, including table of contents, author bios, and cover graphic, see: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780735627055

Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Developer's Handbook Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010 Developer's Handbook
Publisher: Microsoft Press
By Klaus Löffelmann, Sarika Calla Purohit
Print ISBN: 9780735627055   Ebook ISBN: 9780735663107  
Pages: 1024
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