Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET

Book Title: Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Author: James Foxall
ISBN: 0735613567
Price: $32.99
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Publication Date: 7/21/2002

This guide for programmers describes standardized techniques for developing reliable Visual Basic .NET code. This standardized code is much easier to maintain and enhance than improvised code. Code samples found throughout the text illustrate both go

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There are so many ways to design a solution and write code (some good, many bad). This book explains best practices for designing and writing VB.NET code to improve maintainability. Also, it does an excellent job explaining the basics of: debugging in VB.NET; using the installation tools; user interface design; and version and source control.

This book is my bible for general VB.NET programming standards - I think every VB.NET coder should have a copy of this book. The ideas presented, writing, and samples are all excellent. While this book is not meant to be an introductory text to VB.NET more experienced programmers could probably use it as such. Less experienced programmers should make it the second book they read (after reading a VB.NET introductory book like Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Step by Step by Michael Halvorson).

(Submitted by Bob Tattersall)