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By Sean Campbell, Scott Swigart, Kris Horrocks, Derek Hatchard, Peter Bernhardt
I have learn the 1st couple of chapters of this booklet, and up to now i locate it a truly readable creation to VB.NET 2005.
This booklet works most sensible when you've got earlier VB event both with VB 6.0 or VB.NET. i've got event with VB 3.0 via VB 6.0 and made the swap to VB.NET 2002 in Beta 2.
I in my view am no longer attracted to examples ahead of VB.NET however the writer occasionally comprises VB 6.0 examples.
The writer does an exceptional task of evaluating and contrasting collections in VB 6.0, .NET Frameworks 1.0/1.1 and .NET Framework 2.0.
The booklet bargains a to the purpose advent of generics. He explains the advantages and the way and why they need to be used. this actual bankruptcy has pattern code to check the functionality of a hard and fast size array to an Array record to a accepted record. the single challenge with the code is that it makes use of an undefined functionality to check the ensuing execution occasions. It used to be effortless to put in writing the lacking code, however the code is just not missing.
It's actual that you should ultimately locate every little thing the publication says both on the net or through experimenting with the product, however the e-book does an outstanding activity of major you thru the recent gains in a significant way.
The writer refers to .NET 1.2 which at the present time does not exist. we all know it as .NET 2.0, yet within the early days it used to be often called 1.2.
I'm going to learn this e-book as a assessment to aid arrange me for a VB.NET 2005 category that i'm going to attend quickly. in the event you already comprehend much concerning the new gains of VB.NET 2005 then you definately most likely don't desire this book.
After i have complete examining the e-book i'm going to edit this evaluation to tell you if my emotions have replaced.
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There are also a number of new data controls and enhancements to existing data controls—most notable is the ability to bind a data control to a data source control to create rich, data-driven, zero code Web sites. All Web server controls are now device-aware. 1 had separate mobile controls specifically for limited devices such as phone-based browsers. As a Web developer, you no longer have to use different controls to support different types of devices. You might, however, have to give some consideration to the types of devices you are going to support when you design your interfaces.
You might, however, have to give some consideration to the types of devices you are going to support when you design your interfaces. 0. NET Framework and develop with Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2005 is the next step in the evolution of Visual Studio. 0 contain many interesting and exciting enhancements that are detailed in the rest of this book. The following sections provide some examples. Visual Basic Enhancements There are a number of changes in Visual Basic, including the much-anticipated introduction of Generics, the new Using statement, the new IsNot keyword, and operator overloading.
Collect() This code stores 5 million values into a fixed-size array. The values are also stored in an ArrayList, which grows automatically, and a generic List, which also grows as needed. The performance numbers (on the computer where this code was developed) tell an interesting story: Array time: 344 ArrayList time: 4656 List time: 797 Nothing is faster than an array that stores a specific type and never needs to resize. ) However, for a collection class that grows dynamically, its performance compared to the static array is pretty good.