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You don’t need a solid knowledge of Visual Basic to read this free visual basic ebook, but you do need a basic understanding of programming. You need to know the meaning of variables and functions and how an If. . .Then structure works. This book is aimed at the typical programmer who wants to get the most out of Visual Basic. It covers the topics I felt are of use to most VB programmers, and it does so in depth. Visual Basic 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 are two extremely rich programming tools, and I had to choose between a superficial coverage of many topics and an in-depth coverage of fewer topics. To make room for more topics, I have avoided including a lot of reference material and lengthy listings. For example, you won’t find complete project listings or form descriptions. I assume that you can draw a few controls on a form and set their properties, and that you don’t need long descriptions of the controls’ properties. I’m also assuming that you don’t want to read the trivial segments of each application. Instead, the listings concentrate on the ‘‘meaty’’ part of the code: the procedures that explain the topic at hand.

The topics covered in this free visual basic ebook were chosen to provide a solid understanding of the principles and techniques for developing applications with Visual Basic. Programming isn’t about new keywords and functions. I chose the topics I felt every programmer should learn in order to master the language. I was also motivated by my desire to present useful, practical examples. You will not find all topics equally interesting or important. My hope is that everyone will find something interesting and something of value for his or her daily work— whether it’s an application that maps the folders and files of a drive to a TreeView control, an application that prints tabular data, a data-driven application for editing customers or products, or an application that saves a collection of objects to a file.

Many books offer their readers long, numbered sequences of steps to accomplish a task. Following instructions simplifies certain tasks, but programming isn’t about following instructions. It’s about being creative; it’s about understanding principles and being able to apply the same techniques in several practical situations. And the way to creatively exploit the power of a language such as Visual Basic 2008 is to understand its principles and its programming model.

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