Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft))

Books for Visual Basic and Visual Studio Programming

Printed books about Visual Basic and Visual Studio programming provide in-depth sources of information and self-paced training that Web sites can supplement but not replace. As you seek to expand your Visual Basic and Visual Studio programming skills, I recommend that you consult the following sources of printed information (listed here by category). Note that this isn't a complete bibliography of Visual Studio 2005 titles, but it is a list that's representative of the books available in English at the time of the initial release of Visual Studio 2005. I also list books related to database programming, Web programming, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming, and general books about software development and computer science.

Visual Basic 2005 Programming

• Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Core Reference, by Francesco Balena (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2183-7)

• Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers, by Francesco Balena and Guiseppe Dimauro (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2172-1)

• OOP: Building Reusable Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, by Ken Spencer, Tom Eberhard, and John Alexander (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1379-6). This book covers Visual Basic .NET 2003 but is still useful.

Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft .NET Framework

• Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System, by Richard Hundhausen (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2185-3)

• Debugging, Tuning, and Testing Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Applications, by John Robbins (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2202-7)

Database Programming with ADO.NET

• Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Step by Step, by Rebecca Riordan (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2164-0)

• Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Core Reference, by David Sceppa (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2206-X)

• Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics, by Glenn Johnson (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2141-1)

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Step by Step, by Jackie Goldstein (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2184-5)

Web Programming with ASP.NET

• Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition: Build a Web Page Now! by Jim Buyens (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2212-4)

• Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Programming Step by Step, by George Shepherd (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2201-9)

• Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference, by Dino Esposito (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2176-4)

• Programming ASP.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics, by Dino Esposito (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2177-2)

• Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 Databases: Beta Preview, by John Kauffman, Thiru Thangarathinam (Wrox Press, ISBN 0-7645-7081-1)

Visual Basic for Applications Programming

• Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Programming Inside Out, by Curtis Frye, Wayne S. Freeze, and Felicia K. Buckingham (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1985-9)

• Programming Microsoft Office Access 2003 (Core Reference), by Rick Dobson (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1942-5)

General Books about Programming and Computer Science

• Code Complete, Second Edition, by Steve McConnell (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1967-0)

• Code, by Charles Petzold (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1131-9)

• Writing Secure Code, Second Edition, by Michael Howard, David LeBlanc (Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1722-8)

• Software Project Survival Guide, by Steve McConnell (Microsoft Press, ISBN 1-57231-621-7)

• Data Structures and Algorithms Using Visual Basic .NET, by Michael McMillan (Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521547652)

• The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3, by Donald Knuth (Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-201485419)

• Data Structures and Algorithms, by Alfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman, John E. Hopcroft (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201000237)