Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
James D. Foxall · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2000
From the Publisher: Because Visual Basic powerful development capabilities are within ready grasp of both the professional and the recreational programmer, many Visual Basic developers are self-taughtand therefore lack formal training on programming standards. But anyone who writes even a single line of codeand especially developers working in concert on a single projectshould employ some basic, standardized techniques to optimize application maintainability and extensibility, as well as sidestep costly errors and pitfalls. But until now, there has been no definitive handbook describing these standards. Practical Standards For Microsoft Visual Basic fills this critical need, providing pragmatic guidelines on both where and how to apply programming standards for maximum benefit. Readers discover that by consistently utilizing standards in how they design interfaces and organize code, they can realize substantial gains in efficiency, reliability and performancefor themselves and in the solutions they build. Key Book Benefits: Provides pragmatic guidance and advice on programming standards to the community of Visual Basic developersmany of whom lack formal training in the areas of standards Compiles professional standards for Visual Basic in practical and easy-to-read format In addition to delineating standardized techniques, book also suggests guidelines for their application, helping individual developers or teams of developers optimize their time and resources and avoid the consequences of sloppy design About the Author(s): James Foxall is Vice President of Tigerpaw Software, Inc. (www.tigerpawsoftware.com), a software development firm specializing in commercial database applications. James is responsible for the management of all Windows® application development including Pursuit, a certified Office Compatible contact and customer-information system reviewed in many major software and trade publications. James's experience in creating certified Office Compatible software has made him an authority on application interface and behavior standards of applications for the Microsoft Windows and Office environment. James has personally written over 90,000 lines of commercial production code in both single-programmer and multiple-programmer environments. James has written several computer books on both Access and Visual Basic. The author has also written for Access/Office/VBA Advisor magazine and is an international speaker on Microsoft Access and Microsoft Visual Basic, and he is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD). In addition to speaking and writing, James has taught Visual Basic at the college level, and has been featured on numerous television news shows, in trade publications, and in newspaper articles for his technology expertise.