books by Francesco Balena (developers microsoft developer)

books by Francesco Balena

books:

Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference) (Core Reference)

81 reviews
Francesco Balena

Microsoft Press, 2002

Everything Under the Sun
This is the most through book on VB.Net I've ever found. It's a steep read, but if there are any dark corners of VB.Net that haven't had light shed on them, then you aren't useing VB to it's fullest potential, and you haven't read this book. The current price of this book on Amazon right now (~50.00) makes it more than a steal with the amount of information in it. Espcially compared to the ...

Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2005: The Base Class Library (Pro-Developer)

11 reviews
Francesco Balena

Microsoft Press, 2006

Great Intermediate Level C# Material
If you have C# skills of no less then an advanced beginner, and want to find yourself securely in the intermediate range, then you have found the right book. Read it once and you will find your skill set drastically improved. Read it twice and study it thoroughly, and you will find yourself getting turned to for help from your more senior developers. Quite the ego booster. It's well written, ...

Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (Mps)

89 reviews
Francesco Balena

Microsoft Press, 1999

Best VB 6.0 book I own.
This book is a must have for any VB 6.0 programmer period. So buy it. Not only is this book extremely informative, but Balena writes excellently. The way he communicates the information help's make the info stick in your head. As for the informative part Balena covers all the major bases in depth and some of the more obscude/advanced topics to get your feet wet. He also shows you different ...

Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language (Pro Developer)

20 reviews
Francesco Balena

Microsoft Press, 2006

Excellent, monumental book - but not for everyone
Visual Basic appeared more than 15 years ago as a tool to define quick prototypes and develop GUI applications with ease. Its development environment, which the language was literally blended in, was remarkably easy to use. I remember those good old days when a fellow colleague of mine showed me how to draw VB forms and in less than an hour after I was already developing a new GUI application. ...

Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Version 2003 (Pro Developer)

28 reviews
Francesco Balena

Microsoft Press, 2004

Wonderful learning tool and reference
This was the first .NET book I purchased, and in many ways if I hadn't bought any others it would have been sufficient. It has thorough coverage of the .NET environment, with lucid code examples in VB.NET. I found the chapters on ADO.NET and the framework internals to be most useful to my job as an ASP.NET developer, but the coverage is deep enough that a person with very little programming ...

Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers (Pro-Developer)

19 reviews
Francesco Balena, Giuseppe Dimauro

Microsoft Press, 2005

This is another one for any Devs bookshelf.
This is very much guide to best practise in your dev team. It will help any team and sure helped mine. Its easy to absorbe and it makes a different. It can also be dipped into when you need 'advice' and for us was a first port of call when we were setting up best practise in our department. Might be one to get second hand and ensure that it circulates in your department.

Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET

15 reviews
Jeffrey Richter, Francesco Balena

Microsoft Press, 2002

Great for CLR internals/patterns
The title is misleading, but the material is wonderful. (This book was originally published in C#, and the 2.0 edition of this book is titled CLR via C#.) If you already have a working knowledge of VB.Net 1.0/1.1 and want to gain a deeper understanding of the CLR internals and some essential patterns, this is the best place to start. Unless you are a seasoned developer, this should not be your ...