Effective Visual Basic: How to Improve Your VB/COM+ Applications (DevelopMentor) Book

Effective Visual Basic: How to Improve Your VB/COM+ Applications could as easily have been titled, "Defensive VB Programming". Its dual purpose is to ensure you do the right thing--and if for some reason you did the right thing wrong, ensure you can easily find and right that wrong. Rather than chapters you get five basic sections full of rules. The first, Shifting from Liberal Arts to Software Engineering sums up the authors' attitude to programming. It says what all good programmers say: trap locally, act globally; raise errors to signal exceptions and so on. However, it then goes on to show you how to do it quickly, efficiently and routinely. Your code is easier to understand, test and debug. But why do VB programmers need a book to tell them what they should already know? Liken it to an advanced driving course. Everyone knows they have bad driving habits, and often what they are. The purpose of the advanced driving course trick is to impose effective routine behaviours. This is what Effective Visual Basic does. By working through it you will gain new, and more effective, programming habits. The explanations the authors provide on the underpinnings of VB, COM+, MTS, IIS and other technologies provides the information you need to decide which programming solution will be most effective. Moreover, Effective Visual Basic is relentlessly practical, using real world problems to illustrate the points it makes. Working VB programmers can expect to quickly recoup the modest cost of this excellent book in improved effectiveness. --Steve PatientRead More