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Summary: Too much commentary
Review: I have read about 60% of the book and I can't seem to pick it up again. Too much commentary and I'll read for an hour and ask myself "What did I learn?". I wanted a book that would teach me VB.Net and I probably picked the wrong one. If you want high-level discussion and opinion then this is the book for you. If you want to simply learn specifics about VB.Net, look elsewhere.
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Summary: Great book for intermediate programmer
Review: Execellent book overall. Moves very fast in some area, ideal for intermediate to advance programmers as author goes into advance concepts. Not an easy read. Requires more editing, perhaps wait for 2nd edition. Check table of content to see if this book is for you.
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Summary: Just Strategies and concepts
Review: Well, i am not a vb6 professional programmer!
That was an error of mine, i had a hope on 'moving to' something that would be more consistent than what i can recall from this book.
The full coverage of the new concepts, like XML, are taken very lightly, and terms like '...the propouse of this book was not to cover, deeply, this subject...' are very painfull to me.
Well, i have to buy other book...
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Summary: Fulfills its purpose
Review: I'm still working through this one, but if you are a VB developer who needs to both get up to speed on OO concepts and understand migration issues, get this book. Just enough code to explain the concepts, so if you are looking for example code buy a different book. If you want to understand the changes, reasons for the changes and just learn to be a better developer and architect of solutions, this is well worth your time.
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Summary: Only for VB6 developers
Review: I thought I could gleam some knowledge from this book despite not being a VB6 coder. This was not the case. Dont bother buying the book unless you really are moving from VB6 to VB.net.
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Summary: Favorable comments on Dan's New Book
Review: This is one of the very best geek-type books I have had the pleasure of buying and using. It will certainly save me many hours of kicking and screaming with Bill Gates's creations.There are numerous code examples that work, in contrast to many such books that add to the problems one encounters
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Summary: Not the book you think it is
Review: It is with great regret that I cannot give this book a better rating. From reading the editor review, I got the impression this would help me transition from VB6 to VB.Net. You may have the same impression too. However, the first chapter that gives specifics is a detailed analysis of the way interfaces have changed. Be honest, when did you last use anything except the default interface. Many of you have probably never written a class at all. A couple of chapters later is an in-depth discussion of multi-threading. I've been programming for twenty years and only two of my applications were multithreaded. Although the book is extremely well written and will be very valuable to some programmers, I'm confident 95%+ of readers will find it mostly irrelevant to their day-to-day programming tasks. The most important thing I learned from this book is that VB.net is very different in all aspects from VB6. I'm going to treat it as a new language so I'm off to find 'Teach yourself VB.net in 21 days' or something similar. This book will remain on my shelf and I will use it, but it is not the book I thought it would be and now I need to go buy another one.
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Well I should read the whole book before reviewing it, shouldn't I? I picked it up again today and found that section 3 (page 187) contains exactly what you and I need -- details on the changes that will affect 100% of my programs, not just 10%. It should have been section 1, but at least it's there. I upped the rating to 4 stars and probably won't need another book after all. Sorry Dan.
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Summary: Best VB.NET Book I've Ever Read!
Review: Well, so far it is the only one. But that does not lessen the appeal of the book. The book is also being handed out by Microsoft as part of the package given away at the "0 to 60 .NET" sessions underway this fall in over 30 cities. It is an interesting choice for Microsoft, because Dan is a Microsoft technology guy, but he is not blind to the weakness of poorly designed software. I enjoy the writing style of Dan, as well as his knowledge of the subject manner. I respect Dan for his honesty and technical knowledge.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: Dan Appleman does an excellent job explaining the fundamentals of .NET. He empowers the reader to come to their own well thought-out conclusions of how to migrate to this drastically different, yet very cool, platform.
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Summary: Friend
Review: Life is full of choices. Every choice requires us to make a decision. When facing these decisions, those people who care about us will offer their insight and guidance. These kinds of people are usually considered our friends. This being the case; consider Dan Appleman your friend. His book on .Net is full of insight. In it, Dan will guide you to intelligently decision making regarding the use of multithreading, inheritance and the .Net framework. Mr. Appleman, Thanks!
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