Expert one-on-one Visual Basic 2005 Design and Development

Get ready to take your applications to the next level by harnessing all of Visual Basic 2005's tools for programming, debugging, and refactoring code. In this hands-on book, you'll get proven techniques for developing even the most complex Visual Basic applications. Expert tips on modeling, user interface design, and testing will help you master the advanced features of this language. You'll learn how to make writing code more effective so that you can quickly develop and maintain your own amazingly powerful applications.

Are you ready to take your applications to the next level by harnessing all of Visual Basic 2005''s unmatched tools for programming, debugging, and refactoring code? In this hands-on book, I''ll share with you proven techniques for developing even the most complex Visual Basic applications. I include expert tips on modeling, user interface design, and testing so that you can master the advanced features of this language.

I''ll first take you through the design activities that are necessary before Visual Basic development can begin. Next I''ll describe the various writing tools that you''ll be able to use to make programming easier and less error-prone. I then focus on various ways to make writing code more effective and cover sophisticated techniques for handling particular tasks. This approach will help you quickly develop and maintain your own amazingly powerful applications.

What you will learn from this book

• How to add scripting, reflection, and advanced printing to your applications
• Ways to write add-ins for the VB 2005 development environment
• How to build custom controls by using UserControl, subclassing, and by using from-scratch methods
• Tips for making development and maintenance of apps easier
• How to utilize advanced debugging and testing techniques
• How to use the new Visual Basic 2005 threading tools

Who this book is for

This book is for advanced Visual Basic programmers who already have experience with Visual Basic 2005 and are comfortable with the language.

Wrox Expert One-On-One books present the wisdom accumulated by an experienced author who is recognized as an expert by the programming community. These experts challenge professional developers to examine their current practices in pursuit of better results.

Rod Stephens started out as a mathematician but, while studying at MIT, discovered the joys of programming, and has been programming professionally ever since. During his career, he has worked on an eclectic assortment of applications in such fields as telephone switching, billing, repair dispatching, tax processing, wastewater treatment, and training for professional football players.
Stephens has written 15 books that have been translated into half a dozen different languages, and more than 200 magazine articles covering Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Java. He writes three weekly newsletters (www.vb-helper.com/newsletter.html) that contain quick tips, tricks, and examples for Visual Basic developers.
His popular VB Helper Web site (www.vb-helper.com) receives several million hits per month, and contains thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and example code for Visual Basic programmers, as well as example code for this book.