Visual Basic 2008 offers powerful new features, and Accelerated VB 2008 is the fastest way to master them, and the rest of Visual Basic, for both experienced Visual Basic programmers moving to VB 2008 and programmers moving to Visual Basic from another object-oriented language?. This book teaches the concept of both core Visual Basic language and how to wisely use VB idioms and object? oriented design patterns to exploit the power of VB and the CLR. Accelerated VB 2008 is both quick tutorial and a permanent reference. Why spend months or years to find the best way to design and code VB when this book will show you how to do things the right way, right from the beginning? Comprehensive and concise describes both Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Basic 2008 features focus on language itself and on how to use Visual Basic 2008 advanced to all applications Concentrates. NET Development on how VB features work and how best to use them for powerful, high? performance code What you? will learn How VB works with and exploits CLR How to use arrays and collections How to handle events with delegates How to design and use generic types and methods How to thread efficiently and sturdy How the new VB 2008 anonymous types, Lamba expressions and extension methods work and how to use it Who this book? If you? Return an experienced VB programmer, you need to understand how VB has changed with VB 2008. If youre an experienced object? Oriented programmer moving to VB, you would like a brisk walk in the language while learning the latest features and techniques.