{"id":553,"date":"2011-04-29T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2011\/04\/29\/the-temple-of-vb-matt-gertz\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:39:51","slug":"the-temple-of-vb-matt-gertz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/the-temple-of-vb-matt-gertz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Temple of VB (Matt Gertz)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, all!<\/p>\n

It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog, and a lot has happened in my world since then.  Though I’ve been pretty busy on our engineering systems team, I took a little time off last summer to do some traveling and, more importantly, some long overdue writing.  <\/p>\n

Although I’d always enjoyed writing the “here’s how you build this application” blog posts, I always felt that I could do a bit more with them, and so I took my favorite posts, cleaned them up, added a lot more text and pictures, and turned them into a Kindle e-book.  The posts I’ve included and expanded on are: the Euchre game, the paint-by-numbers editor, the maze game, the gerbil game, the DNA-to-protein translator, and the encoder.  (Since these posts were all written before VB2010 shipped, I’ve updated a couple of the walkthroughs to cover functionality that’s been improved in VB2010 over earlier versions.)  <\/p>\n

You can find this book on Amazon now:  “The Temple of VB:  Six real-life applications to bring your Visual Basic .NET skills up-to-speed” by Matthew Gertz<\/a>.  And, of course, the source for the applications themselves is freely available at my Temple of VB<\/a> site as usual.  If you have a Kindle (or the Kindle for PC app) and are interested in a set of on-hand walkthroughs covering various coding areas (resources, printing, XML use, game logic, and so on), I invite you to take a look!<\/p>\n

Addendum:  A couple folks have reported that they can’t get the links to work.  Here are the links directly:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B004YE78FS<\/a> (for the book)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/archive.msdn.microsoft.com\/templeofvb<\/a> (for the source code)<\/p>\n

–Matt Gertz–*<\/p>\n

P.S.  If you have a smaller Kindle, like a Kindle 3, then I strongly recommend reading the book in landscape mode w\/smaller font — in general, lines of code look better that way, since they can wrap inelegantly in portrait mode on smaller screens.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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