If you are a. NET developer experienced, beginning Visual Basic programmer, or developer looking for a clear migration path from VB6 and simple to Visual Basic 2005, Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook provides a practical collection of problem-solving recipes for a variety of Visual Basic programming tasks. Like all O'Reilly cookbooks, each recipe helps you quickly understand the problem, learn how to overcome them, and anticipate potential sacrifice or consequence. book useful features include: More than 300 recipes are written in the Problem-Solution-Discussion format familiar O'Reilly Hundreds of pieces of code, examples, and complete solutions available for download VB6 updates to alert VB6 programmers to code-breaking changes in Visual Basic 2005 targeting Recipes Visual Basic 2005 features not included in previous releases Code examples covering everyday data manipulation techniques and language fundamentals Advanced projects focusing on multimedia and mathematical transformations using linear algebraic methods covering specific topics of files and system files, printing, and database In addition, you'll find chapters on cryptography and compression, graphics, and special programming techniques.