Visual Basic 2005 focuses on enabling developers to rapidly build applications, with enhancements across its visual designers, code editor, language, and debugger that help accelerate the development and deployment of robust, elegant applications across the Web, a business group, or an enterprise. Now you can teach yourself the essentials of working with Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 and the new features of the Visual Basic language—one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you’re a beginning programmer or new to this specific language, you’ll understand the core capabilities and fundamental techniques for Visual Basic 2005. Each chapter puts you to work, showing you how, when, and why to use specific features of Visual Basic and guiding as you create actual components and working applications for Microsoft Windows®. You’ll also explore data management and Web-based development topics.

The popular STEP BY STEP approach provides hands-on guidance to beginning-level programmers and those new to Visual Basic, covering key features and fundamental techniques to accelerate their productivity. The companion CD includes data sets and sample code for all exercises.

Key Book Benefits:

• This immensely popular tutorial for Visual Basic has been fully revised for the newest version of the technology.

• Provides step-by-step guidance on how to use Visual Basic 2005 with Visual Studio 2005 to create smart-client and Web applications.

• Features easy-to-follow, logically planned lessons, with necessary data sets and additional code samples on the CD.

• STEP BY STEP is ideal for anyone with a fundamental understanding of computer programming.