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Summary: Great Book for Intermediate through Advanced VB Coders
Review: After completing a college intorductory course in Visual Basic 5.0, I was looking for a book to continue my learning in VB. After skimming through various VB books, everything from "The VB Black Book" to "Using VB," I was very disapointed. Most VB books were either to Basic, to advanced or the topic included only one primary subject. Then I found "Mastering Visual Basic 6.0" This book covers a lot of ground in various VB subjects, without losing important details. I wanted a book that would show me the next step in ADO, VBScript, Graphics, etc, without losing to much detail. I love this book
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Summary: One of the Best money can buy!!
Review: After programming in VB 6.0 for the last couple of years and currently having 2 Microsoft Certified Professional Certifications in Visual Basic 6.0 Development: Desktop and Distributed Applications Development; this is undoubtedly one of the best book on Visual Basic 6.0 that I have come across till this day. It is not only extremely helpful to beginners as well as also for those people who do have a background in programming in Visual Basic 6.0. Nearly all of the chapters are carefully designed, the topic well explained and most important of all, the source code is terrific. It is a must for all those people who not only want to buy a good book but also would love to understand all the basics of programming in Visual Basic 6.0. All the aspects of Visual Basic 6.0 programming have been dealt in great detail, including web applications development. An entire chapter has been dedicated for explaining the functionality of ASP. It's undoubtedly one of the best book for Visual Basic 6.0 that money can buy!! If you are looking for a book that you would love to keep for the rest of your life, this is the one!!
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Summary: Too good to be True
Review: An excellent book which caters both for beginners and intermediate programmers. The author has convered almost all the features of this language. A must buy book for people who donot know VB. All topics explained in a very lucid manner which even novices to programming can understand perfectly.
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Summary: The Author must have some lying friends...
Review: Because this book does not deserve 5 stars by any standard. I had already taken a class in VB and had wanted to go to The Next Level. I picked up this book because it seemed to cover alot and it had the most pages (which I thought meant it had the most info). The author basically hits you from both sides, he doesn't explain the code well and he doesn't print the full code in the book. This causes you to have to keep going back to the CD and figure out the code by yourself which is annoying. Moreover, he tends to begin explaining something and then move on to something else without finishing the explaination. I did eventually get through the whole book but that was only because I'm a CS major and have had the concepts explained to me before in other Programming languages. But I wouldn't suggest this book for anyone, for experienced programmers the constant errors will drive you mad and beginners won't be able to understand it at all.
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Summary: A Good Book!!!
Review: Consider the so manny junks in the market place for VB books. This is a good one for serious programmer. Inside out VB techniques and concepts and step by step progamming instructions. I would strongly suggest this book for a serious programmer who wants to migrate to VB. Some bad work in the last two chapters on ASP application and too little ADO, not SQL on VB application and skipping ActiveX Document are the faults of this book. But any way, considering so many junks in the VB book market, this one is a relatively serious copy. Why a below 4-star rating? Good Luck!
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Summary: Lot of pages, little use
Review: Designing enterprise apps in vb for a large cellular company, I can't tell you the number of times I got stuck in code, looked for the answer in this book, and after wasting 10 minutes picked up one of the other vb books and found the answer. I feel sorry for the trees that got sacrificed for this colossal page waste.
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Summary: Mastering VB 6? Yeah right!
Review: Finished "Teach Yourself VB 5.0 in 21 days" last year, it was a fantastic book for beginners, and I was ready to step further, then I bought this book for my reference. Boy, this book is very confusing! Go to Chapter 17, for example (page 923), and do the data entry project. I spent hours trying to figure out, why the code just wouldn't work and I always got error messages for undefined variables! Finally, I use the CD to view the codes, and I found out that there were MANY procedures that weren't not on the book at all! NO WONDER! Thanks a lot! The author jumps around different topics, does not even bother to finish the darn project! If you want to learn VB, go for Teach yourself VB 5.0 in 21 days, and buy something else when you're done, DON'T TOUCH THIS BOOK! I don't understand why others gave 5 stars, did you guys even try the codes? You will change your ratings if you did.
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Summary: mastering???
Review: How can you write a Mastering VB book with no mention of the masked edit control? This is a decent beginner's book, but as far as mastering goes, it lacks the depth of knowledge.
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Summary: Just wanted to give this guy 5 stars. He deserves them.
Review: I am only on chapter 5, but I can clearly see by now that the book is *outstanding* in discussing the things that I need to know and leaving out the BS.
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Summary: Will Make a Good Door Stop
Review: I am relatively new to VB programming. I purchased this book because of the great reviews. What a mistake. The author glosses over topics, which I feel, should be covered in more depth, especially for the beginner. I wracked my brain trying to figure out the bad code examples used in this book. I try to purchase books from Amazon with at least 4.5 to 5 stars, and for the most part, I have been very satisfied. The author must have had his friends write the good reviews for this one. Save a tree, don't buy this book.
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