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title: "Sample chapter from \"The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language\" available"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/5/sample-chapter-from-quotthe-visual-basic-net-programming-lan.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/5/sample-chapter-from-quotthe-visual-basic-net-programming-lan.html"
published: "2004-04-05T23:08:00"
updated: "2004-04-05T23:08:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Free book chapters"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "For those of you who've been considering buying my book but just want to make sure that it's worth whatever they're charging for it these days, Addison-Wesley (my publishers) has provided a sample chapter online in PDF…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Sample chapter from "The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language" available

By Roy Osherove April 5, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Free book chapters](https://osherove.com/blog/category/free-book-chapters)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 5, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

_For those of you who've been considering buying my book but just want to make sure that it's worth whatever they're charging for it these days, Addison-Wesley (my publishers) has provided a_ [_sample chapter_](http://www.awprofessional.com/content/images/0321169514/samplechapter/vickch13.pdf) _online in PDF format. The chapter is about inheritance, so it should give you a good idea of what the rest of the book is going to be like._

_As always, you can buy the book_ [_here_](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321169514/iserializable-20)_._

\[via [Paul Vick](http://panopticoncentral.net/archive/2004/04/05/895.aspx)\]

_(I changed the book link to include my referrer link instead of Paul's)_

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/