Doing Objects in Visual Basic 2005 is the authoritative guide to object-oriented design, architecture, and development with Visual Basic 2005. Author Deborah Kurata is the original pioneer in building object-oriented applications with Visual Basic. In this book she continues to offer clarity and deliver best practices for using object-oriented techniques in Visual Basic 2005.

The book begins with a concise introduction to core object-oriented concepts and the Visual Basic 2005 features that support them. Next she introduces a pragmatic and agile approach to designing effective applications along with an application framework. From there she walks you through the process of building the user interface, business logic, and data access layers of an application, highlighting key VB 2005 techniques and best practices. Kurata’s step-by-step “building along” activities provide you with deep hands-on mastery; your finished application can serve as the starting point for virtually any custom project.

This book:

• Clearly explains the fundamental concepts of object development: classes, inheritance, interfaces, scenarios, and more
• Presents a pragmatic agile software design methodology to help analyze and design applications for the real world
• Covers building the user interface layer using a base form class, programmatic interfaces, and object binding
• Details building the business logic layer using a base business object class and validation rules
• Demonstrates how to build the data access layer using ADO.NET
• Provides best practices and tips for experienced .NET developers, those new to .NET, and for those developers moving from VB6 to .NET

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This book is a collection of very valuable but lesser-known features of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. Kurata provides detailed information about how to use each of these features to improved the efficiency of your software development process and the quality of the resulting software.

By using the hidden treasures of .NET that are revealed in this book, you can be more productive, create better code, and produce superior software.

This book covers:

• Hidden Treasures in Visual Studio
• Doing Windows Forms
• Code Tricks (VB.NET and C#)
• Much ADO
• Defensive Development

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• HTML including tables and forms
• Cascading style sheets
• JavaScript including data validation and cookies
• The Document Object Model (DOM)
• XML and schemas
• XSL

• Exploit the new object-oriented features of Visual Basic, including Class modules, Collections, and Property procedures.
• Design and implement an object-oriented application using Class modules or forms to define your classes.
• Define interfaces for your classes to leverage polymorphism.
• Integrate databases into your object-oriented applications.
• Create ActiveX components Polish the application with resource files, NT event log entries, setup program, and more...