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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008
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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008

by Evangelos Petroutsos
March 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
1152 pages
33h 45m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 1. Getting Started with Visual Basic 2008

I'm assuming that you have installed one of the several versions of Visual Studio 2008. For this book, I used the Professional Edition of Visual Studio, but just about everything discussed in this book applies to the Standard Edition as well. Some of the features of the Professional Edition that are not supported by the Standard Edition concern database tools, which are discussed in Chapter 21 through 24 of this book.

You may have even already explored the new environment on your own, but this book starts with an overview of Visual Studio and its basic tools. It doesn't even require any knowledge of VB 6, just some familiarity with programming at large. As you already know, Visual Basic 2008 is ...

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