Overview
The essential companion for Visual Basic development teams and individuals.
- Master effective practices to create crystal-clear, reusable code
- Foster effective collaboration by maintaining reliable standards
- Acquire the mindset of a professional developer
- Use the comprehensive reference section to make your programs consistent and portable
- Works with all flavors of Visual Basic
- Professional best practices for programmers
- Guidelines for standard structure and syntax
- Foundational attitudes of quality development
- Complete reference section for all flavors of Visual Basic
The essential companion for Visual Basic development teams and individuals.
All effective teamwork is based on clear communication. In the field of software development, this means using consistent, documented conventions that can be easily understood and built upon by teammates, now and in the future.
To meet this need, this handbook for Visual Basic programmers contains a comprehensive reference section covering nomenclature, instantiation, keywords, controls, user interfaces-every major VB concept, in all flavors of VB. And more than that, it promotes an attitude, an environment of the mind in which healthy Visual Basic programs are formed.
The winning philosophy of The Visual Basic Style Guide will help your team develop its programming power through discipline, documentation, and professionalism. Build your development skills through:
- Application of proven and consistent style and user interface methodologies,
- Grounding in the foundational attitudesof discipline, planning, and ethics, and
- Getting to know the comprehensive, quick-access reference section.
Even programmers working on individual projects will benefit from the enhanced professionalism that comes from consistency. Whether you're a experienced programmer, a team leader, or a manager, you'll appreciate the thorough coverage and the rigorous standards provided in The Visual Basic Style Guide.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewFor VB team development to succeed, team members need a common terminology, common style, common standards, and common best practices. The Visual Basic Style Guide gives them what they need. Hand it to everyone on your team, and say, "do it this way." Or use it as a solid foundation for your own policies. Either way, it'll help you create more reliable code, create it faster, and build systems your successors can maintain far more easily.
Tim Patrick covers the entire VB software development lifecycle, beginning with planning and requirements gathering, and continuing all the way through documentation. He offers detailed, practical coding guidelines — including proven solutions to recurring VB programming challenges, expressed as patterns.
In some cases, he draws upon existing resources that too many developers neglect; for instance, Microsoft's Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design, which will help your developers build interfaces that will be more intuitive to experienced users of Windows applications. In many cases, however, there have been no widely accepted standards — and they're desperately needed. Patrick fills the gap, drawing upon his extensive experience as a developer, VB trainer, and creator of in-house standards guides. Few VB books have been as sorely needed.
—Bill Camarda, bn.com editor