Description

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Teach yourself the fundamentals of working with Visual Basic 2008--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 2008--and rapidly build robust, elegant applications. Each chapter puts you to work, showing you how, when, and why to use the latest features of Visual Basic--guiding you each step of the way as you create actual components and working applications for Windows. You'll also explore data management and Web-based development topics. PLUS--get practice files with sample code and data sets on the companion CD. For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

About the Author

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Michael Halvorson has written more than 30 books, including the popular "Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Step by Step," "Microsoft Office XP Inside Out," and "Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step by Step." A former Visual Basic localization manager at Microsoft, Michael is a professor at Pacific Lutheran University.