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Visual Basic 2026 Made Easy - Second Edition: Learn VB.NET with Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10: Windows Forms, Databases, LINQ, Async Programming, Pra
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 26 2026
Pages: 812
Weight: 2.35
Height: 1.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Learn Visual Basic 2026 the easy, practical, and beginner-friendly way.
Visual Basic 2026 Made Easy - Second Edition is a complete beginner-to-advanced guide to VB.NET programming with Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10. This extensively revised edition includes many more practical examples, screenshots, complete code listings, and GitHub source code to help you learn by building real applications.
The book begins with the fundamentals of Visual Studio, Windows Forms, controls, variables, data types, decisions, loops, procedures, functions, arrays, strings, and mathematics. It then progresses into more advanced and practical topics including object-oriented programming, graphics, animation, databases, data binding, LINQ, collections, file handling, JSON, asynchronous programming, and web APIs.
Inside this Second Edition, you will learn how to:
Build Windows Forms applications with Visual Studio 2026
Work with Buttons, TextBoxes, ListBoxes, ComboBoxes, PictureBoxes, Timers, DataGridViews, and other controls
Write event-driven VB.NET programs
Use arrays, List(Of T), dictionaries, LINQ, and lambda expressions
Apply object-oriented programming with classes, inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces, and encapsulation
Create graphics, animations, timers, and collision-detection projects
Connect to SQLite databases and perform SQL queries and CRUD operations
Use BindingSource and DataGridView for data-bound applications
Read and write text, CSV, and JSON files
Keep applications responsive with Async and Await
Call REST APIs using HttpClient
Use GitHub Copilot as an AI-assisted programming tool
This edition emphasizes learning by doing. Practical applications include calculators, settings forms, an analogue clock, invoice applications, database systems, employee and payroll projects, web utilities, graphics projects, and more. The manuscript also provides GitHub resources for many of these projects so readers can download, run, study, and modify the complete source code.
Clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, screenshots, exercises, and working examples make this book suitable for students, teachers, hobbyists, self-learners, office users, and aspiring developers.
Whether you are writing your first Visual Basic program or want to progress toward more complete desktop, database, and web-connected applications, Visual Basic 2026 Made Easy - Second Edition provides a practical path from the fundamentals to modern VB.NET development.
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