This book is an invaluable companion when tackling a wide range of Visual Basic 2005 problems. It is packed with solutions to the common problems that professionals in the field encounter day-in day-out.

This book is designed to help this large audience of emerging talents during their first few years in the industry. It is packed with solutions to the common problems that professionals in the field encounter day-in day-out. The book collates these problems and explains their available solutions providing the reader with a succinct explanation of the issues they are facing and a break-down of how the problem can be solved. A complete fully-working code sample is provided for each recipe to put the reader's development back on track.

Visual Basic 2005 is a huge market second only to C# within the .NET languages Is aimed at the large number of early-career developers that comprise the bulk of the Visual Basic marketplace Provides one-stop solutions to the common problems developers encounter day-in day out in their professional lives. It gives them everything they need to solve their problems and get their development back on track

Autorentext
Rakesh Rajan was a Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" in C# and an MCSD in .NET from the Bangalore, India area. He worked as a software engineer in the U.S. at Trivandrum. Rakesh passed away in 2006.

Inhalt
Application Development.- Data Manipulation.- Application Domains, Reflection, and Metadata.- Threads, Processes, and Synchronization.- Files, Directories, and I/O.- XML Processing.- Windows Forms.- Multimedia.- Database Access.- Networking and Remoting.- Security and Cryptography.- Unmanaged Code Interoperability.- Commonly Used Interfaces and Patterns.- Windows Integration.- Language Integrated Query (LINQ).