VB.NET Books Focused On OOP
The VB.NET Framework is really just the collection of objects most of VB.NET is made of. And the study of that collection of objects is what these books are all about.
Dan Appleman's book was one of the first, and probably the most influential "concept and strategy" books to be published when VB.NET and the .NET Framework first came out. Read the full review!
Dan Clark clearly states the problem to be solved by his book: "It has been my experience … that … what perplexes and frustrates many people are the higher-level concepts of object-oriented programming …" Read more about how his book deals with the problem.
When Gary Cornell and VB legend Dan Appleman founded APress, they both committed to writing a book to get their fledgling company off the ground. This is Gary's contribution.
If you're a red hot code worker and you don't have time to plow through a thousand pages to figure out VB.NET, Hamilton wrote your book! Read more about it!
Jesse Liberty writes like he's an old friend explaining the best way to change the oil in your car - just someone who wants things to go right for you. His book is one a unique effort to introduce his friends to VB.NET. See what's unique about it!
This is one of those thousand page plus books! and Powers and Snell have the room to explain VB.NET and they use the space to very good effect. Rather than an encyclopedia of namespace references, they have created a comprehensive documentation of the same thing.
Nutshell books from O'Reilly are the "must have" references. With these books, O'Reilly is taking the "high road" of adding more value and including more content for your book buying dollar.
When you first pick this one up from the shelf in the bookstore, you know you're into something serious. At almost two inches, over a thousand pages, and over two thousand files in the source code download -- this one is for real.
