Four New "Pro" VB.NET 2.0 Titles From Apress
The Framework 2.0 books for VB.NET are starting to roll of the presses now! In particular, they're rolling off the "Author's Press" -- Apress! Four new "Pro" level books are now at your favorite bookstore. Two are new this month alone. Here's a wrapup of these four new titles, plus a full review of the latest ASP.NET 2.0 book for the web, plus the complete chapter 1!
The lineup of new books from Apress includes credits from some of the best known and most experienced technical authors in the business:
Rocky Lhotka - A star author with the "old" Wrox Press, Rocky is now responsible for an impressive lineup with Apress.
Andrew Troelsen - Famously detailed, his books have higher page counts because they cover it all.
Matthew MacDonald - A check of your favorite bookseller will turn up over twenty titles with his name on the cover.
The "Pro" level books from Apress have been expanded with these impressive titles:
Pro Visual Studio 2005 Team System by Jeff Levinson and David Nelson
544 pages - May, 2006 - ISBN: 1590594606
This is a "second book", but this time the second one by the same author team. Why change something that works? Their first book together was about client/server applications. If you like your authors with real, practical experience, these two have spent most of their careers at Boeing.
Pro VB 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform by Andrew Troelsen
1088 pages - April, 2006 - ISBN: 1590595785
I like the trend of tying languages more closely into the underlying technology that really makes it work: the .NET Framework. Andrew Troelsen is the ideal author to do it, too. Troelsen dives down to the bits and bytes like a seal dives for fish.
Expert VB 2005 Business Objects by Rockford Lhotka
696 pages - May 2006 - ISBN: 1590596315
Rocky has immersed himself so thoroughly into Business Objects that he's created his own acronym: CSLA - Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture. CSLA defines a logical n-layer architecture that lets you create applications that run in various physical n-tier configurations. He's been working at this since VB 6 and this is his very latest, customized for Visual Basic!
Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005 by Laurence Moroney, edited by Matthew MacDonald
1296 pages - January, 2006 - ISBN: 1590595637
Apress has teamed up Moroney, a guru from a leading software consulting company, with Matthew MacDonald, one of the leading technology authors to produce one of the most impressive books about the new ASP.NET 2.0 on the market.
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Dan,
Nice to meet you at the Las Vegas Microsoft Across America Event (http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/acrossamerica/). As we discussed, I wanted to share with your readers the details of the 7-part webcast series that I just recently completed. The first four sessions were on VB 2005 features and the additional 3 sessions focused on upgrade from VB6 to VB 2005 (learn more here - http://blogs.msdn.com/jacobcy/archive/category/12739.aspx).
I’d like to suggest that you also add a section to your blog focusing on upgrade from VB6 to VB 2005. Since you are strongly supportive of the VB6 community, you would be providing them with a great aid by helping them find valuable upgrade resources.
Cheers!