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Store See larger picture Murach's Visual Basic 2005: Training & Reference by Anne Boehm - Mike Murach & Associates List Price: $52.50 Price at Amazon.com: $33.08 (Save 37%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Shipping rates and policies Average Customer Review: Based on 11 reviews. Amazon.com Sales Rank: 138915 Product Description Whether you are a beginner or you are upgrading to VB 2005 from VB6 or VB.NET, this book's unique approach shows you how to develop Windows Forms applications at the pace that's right for you. Better yet, this book shows you how to build database applications faster and better than ever by using new features like data sources, the DataGridView control, and object data sources. Along the way, you'll learn how to use object-oriented features like inheritance and interfaces as well as new features like My objects, code snippets, Intellisense filtering, generics, new work-saving controls, partial classes, and one-click deployment. When you are done, you will be able to develop all types of Windows Forms applications the way the best professionals develop them. That's why we say: No other book teaches you so much, so fast, or so thoroughly. Featured Customer Reviews Straight forward answers..., July 31, 2008 Quite a thick, heavy book with so many topics covered, but this book seems to be as a reference only. Beginner programmer will learn some skills from this, but if building a complete application from start to finish is your aim, go find another book. This will give you the idea how to do it in a straigh forward manner, but it is really up to you to recall those ideas and apply the skills learned, not the approach i'm looking for but overall a good book! Good book, but..., June 05, 2008 This is a good book, but many of the assignments are confusing. There were many assignments where the instructions could be interpretted in several different ways. excellent for beginner, May 14, 2008 As a beginner, This book is very easy to understand and to follow the instruction in building the case study. Easy to understand , March 29, 2008 This is good for people with no experience on VB programming. The step by step coding and explanations are the best of this book. Among the best beginner VB texts, maybe 'the' best ..., August 23, 2007 I've been a self-taught developer off and on for ten years and I've relied on books primarily for learning new languages. And the Murach series are consistently the very best texts for self-paced learning. The latest VB offering carries on the tradition with very clear and consise explanations, along with helpful real-world application demonstrations and exercises at the end of the chapter. And none of the pages and pages of errata you must sort thru with many companies (Wrox ... God, don't get me started. :o( ). I'm giving it a FIVE to offset some of the ridiculous assertions made elsewhere about this excellent text. You might also be interested in these items... Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with VB 2005 Murach's ADO.NET 2.0 Database Programming with VB 2005 Murach's SQL Server 2005 for Developers Murach's C# 2005 Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook: Solutions for VB 2005 Programmers (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))