Rod Stephens

The comprehensive guide to Visual Basic 2012 Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) is the most popular programminglanguage in the world, with millions of lines of code used inbusinesses and applications of all types and sizes. In this editionof the bestselling Wrox guide, Visual Basic expert Rod Stephensoffers novice and experienced developers a comprehensive tutorialand reference to Visual Basic 2012. This latest edition introducesmajor changes to the Visual Studio development platform, includingsupport for developing mobile applications that can take advantageof the Windows 8 operating system. This new edition includes information on developingWin8-compatible Metro applications using pre-loaded templates Explores the new design features and support for WPFdesigners Explains how to develop Windows smartphone apps Covers new VB language features such as Asynch and Await Visual Basic 2012 Programmer's Reference is theprogrammer's go-to reference for the 2012 edition of VisualBasic.