Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 in 21 Days provides the grand tour of the software, making Visual Basic accessible and easy-to-use. Steve Holzner, the author, helps you master the topic by seeing Visual Basic in action from the basics to deploying finished Window and Web applications with a working example for every topic in the book. From cover to cover, this book is pure Visual Basic .NET¿everything you need to know about the Visual Basic language and visual tools.
Steven Holzner is the award-winning author of 78 books on programming, and has been writing bestsellers on Visual Basic topics ever since Visual Basic has been around. His books have sold nearly 2 million copies and have been translated into 16 languages around the world. He has a Ph.D. from Cornell University, has been on the faculty of both Cornell and MIT, and is a former contributing editor to PC Magazine. He was writing about Visual Basic before version 1.0 even came out, and it's his favorite all-time development package. He uses it almost daily for commercial development and Web hosting.