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| | Video: “Introduction to Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition,” from Microsoft. This 36-½ minute video discusses the main features of the Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition, walks through some of the common tasks of creating programs, the development environment, setup, creating a project, the Windows Form Designer, writing Visual Basic code; compiling, running and saving a project, errors and debugging, project files, properties and customization, and data. | http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/bb964633.aspx
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| | Article: "What's New in Visual Basic 2008," from Microsoft Developer Network. Discusses the new and enhanced features of Visual Basic 2008 including the VB compiler and language, data access, LINQ, LINQ to SQL, the Dataset Designer, the IDE (integrated development environment), the Project Designer, the Target framework, deployment, and upgrading from Visual Basic 6.0. | http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/we86c8x2.aspx
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| | Book: Simply Visual Basic 2008, 3/e, by Paul J. Deitel and Harvey M. Deitel (April 2008). Discusses computers, the Internet, VB, VB Express 2008 IDE, visual programming, textboxes, buttons, programming, variables, memory concepts, arithmetic, algorithms, pseudocode, program control, checkboxes, message dialogs, the Do While loop, the Do Until loop, repetition statements, the For Next repetition statement, the Select-Case statement, functions procedures, Sub procedures, using dates and timers, scope, pass-by-reference, option Strict, random-number generation, arrays and ComboBoxes, RadioButtons, classes, objects, collections, For Each…Next statements, access keys, LINQ, graphics object, mouse events, keyboard events, menus, dialogs, string processing, sequential-access files, database programming, LINQ to SQL, graphics and printing with the WPF, multimedia with the WPF, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, the ASP.NET Development Server, web controls, and exception handling. | http://www.amazon.com/Simply-Visual-Basic-2008-Program/dp/0136053033/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200081646&sr=1-14
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| | Book: Starting Out with Visual Basic 2008, 4/e, by Tony Gaddis and Kip Irvine (February 2008). Discusses developing Visual Basic 9.0 programs, programming concepts, using controls, using concepts, the features of VB 9.0, creating applications, input, variables, exceptions, calculations, decision making, strings, loops, lists, validation, sub-procedures, functions, multiple forms, standard modules, menus, arrays, timers, files, printing, structure, databases, developing web applications, classes, exceptions, collections and scrollable controls. | http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Out-Visual-Basic-2008/dp/0321531353/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200074394&sr=1-6
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