This engaging, full-color, learn-by-doing guide show new programmers how to build and customize their first project—a desktop weather-reporting application—now! Readers get all the steps, instructions, and software they need in one package —at a great price

Key Book Benefits:

• This dynamic, full-color, highly-visual book is designed to help novice programmers build fundamental programming skills for Microsoft Windows®—quickly and easily.

• Provides complete software for Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 Express Edition and all the instructions needed to understand and put those tools to work right away.

• Features a complete desktop application that can be easily modified and reused a great learn-by-doing example.