For organizations to develop software successfully -- and for individual programmers to succeed in team development projects -- high-quality development standards are essential. The Visual Basic Style Guide brings together state-of-the-art guidelines for professional development geared specifically toward VB environments, and organized as patterns that provide specific solutions to the most common problems VB developers encounter. Tim Patrick, whose lengthy experience as a VB developer includes the creation of in-house development standards guides, covers every aspect of the VB project lifecycle. The Visual Basic Style Guide addresses planning, requirements gathering, coding, documentation, user interfaces, and much more. Wherever commonly accepted standards exist -- such as the Hungarian naming conventions supplied with the VB documentation and the user interface norms detailed in Microsoft's Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design reference -- Patrick builds on them. Where standards do not exist, Patrick presents coherent, disciplined recommendations for building systems that will effectively respond to user needs, offer superior reliability, and are far easier to maintain.