With this power, however, comes great complexity. Many books are available that discuss the Visual Basic language and if you need to build a relatively simple application those are generally sufficient. No books, however, address the complex issues that surround the development of more complicated Visual Basic applications. None discuss design, modeling, user interface design, or testing for Visual Basic applications.

                These books also don’t cover some of the important advanced topics that don’t fit well into introductory books. They generally don’t have the time to cover threading, reflection, advanced memory management, and printing in the depth necessary to make them useful for building really advanced applications.

                Expert One-on-One Visual Basic 2005 Design and Development fills the gaps that these books leave surrounding Visual Basic development. It explains the design activities that are necessary before Visual Basic development can begin. It covers processes that occur after development such as deployment, update management, and testing that are essential to a successful Visual Basic project but that are not part of the language itself. Finally, it covers advanced topics that are useful in real-world applications but that are given little attention in other books.