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Summary: Hardcore Visual Basic for Adults
Review: A book that could well end up as a door stop waiting for you to be ready to read it. In the meantime a CD full of Type Library's and source code that can with little or no tweeking be used in your own apps. Put 1% of Bruce's book into practice and you will be a better programmer for it. With a deeper understanding of Windows and Visual Basic, classes defined and discussed in the book and supplied(CD) open up a wealth of answers and understanding. Look at any VB news group, Browsing files, API calls, String handling are all common questions and a just a few of the items that you will become quite expert in, and look back at those news groups with a knowing grin, if only they knew of Hardcore Visual Basic.
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Summary: Don't mean to rain on everybody's parade but...
Review: Almost all VB books are geared towards the beginner. Here we have a book that is so advanced that unless you've been programming VB full time for a year, it will be incomprehensible to you.If you are an experienced VB programmer and want something to read, go ahead and buy this book, you may get a few interesting nuggets out of it. But there's nothing in here that's really that practical. Certainly there could be a much better book that someone could write that would cover advanced VB topics in a much more organized and easy to understand manner.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: Also a very good book for vb.
This is the second book after VB Power tool kit.
It is worth that money. I love this book.
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Summary: No Thanks
Review: As an old Windows SDK programmer and an existing VB programmer since VB1 I found the book to be interesting - but 'old hat' in most places. However - I accept that this book wasn't perfectly aimed at me so I accept these, what I see as, shortfalls in the contents. All in all I thought it was a good book - however, it was in my opinion, totally spoiled by Bruce's writing style; which I assume is a reflection of his personality in 'real life'. I for one did not want to keep 'hearing' his subjective and childish gripes about what he does and doesn't think about VB.END
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Summary: Definitivamente un "debes tener"
Review: Aunque ya estamos una version adelante, este libro te dará informacion para llegar a ser un Visual Basic Guru. Si este autor ha visto crecer al Basic desde hace muchos años; entonces; en realidad tiene bastante codigo pesado que enseñar; añadiendo la filosofia del autor; definitivamente será este un libro que te cambien el modo de desarrollar. Bruce, ademas de desarollador eres tambien un poeta. Creo haber adoptado tu mentalidad. Para la gente que le gusta el Visual Basic y no le gustan los limites. Este es un libro para el que quiera llegar al termino "Master".
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Summary: Excellent read, recommended.
Review: Bruce McKinney has written a thorough, well organised and well written book on Visual Basic. I started off just wanting to use Visual Basic for graphics and Visual C++ DLLs for the real work. With clear examples of using the Windows API this book makes that a lot easier. But it also shows something of the possibilities of Visual Basic. I've ended up writing a lot more in VB than I had anticipated. The CD-Rom which comes with the book contains a type library for the Win32 API. This saves a LOT of trouble typing in "declares" and types. The book is worth buying for this alone.
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Summary: The best computer book I ever read.
Review: Bruce McKinney takes Visual Basic to places I never imagined could be reached by VB. The amount of research the author invested in studying VB5 and in redefining VB5's limits to an extent that I believe surprised even Microsoft's VB development team. I certainly hope Bruce will decide to abandon his decision (expressed at the end of the book) to stop working on VB for a while and will continue to provide such excelllent examples of how advanced computer books should be written.
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Summary: Good Book but...
Review: C.D. is and excellent source for code. I like another reviewer, found his attempts at "humor" tedious and a waste of paper. A few attempts at humor is fine...stick to the technical side, save a few trees!
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Summary: The CD is worth the price of the book
Review: Definitely not for beginners. For a VB book, a lot of API stuff is well-covered. Also includes a very clear, if high-level, discussion of COM. The examples are well thought-out and executed. The real gems are the Windows type library and his VBCore and VisualCore DLLs. Win32 is essentially VB-unfriendly and Bruce McKinney has solved that problem for you. Just the time saved Declaring and cutting from win32api.txt cost-justifies this book. He's written a VB wrapper for almost everything that you would want to use. He even shows you in the sample code how to build your own vtables in VB. This book comes on the MSDN disk for VB6. Updates to the type library and his DLLs that work with VB6 can be found in his article. Buy it anyway and read it cover to cover. You'll be a better developer for it.
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Summary: The CD is worth the price of the book
Review: Definitely not for beginners. For a VB book, a lot of API stuff is well-covered. Also includes a very clear, if high-level, discussion of COM. The examples are well thought-out and executed. The real gems are the Windows type library and his VBCore and VisualCore DLLs. Win32 is essentially VB-unfriendly and Bruce McKinney has solved that problem for you. Just the time saved Declaring and cutting from win32api.txt cost-justifies this book. He's written a VB wrapper for almost everything that you would want to use. He even shows you in the sample code how to build your own vtables in VB. This book comes on the MSDN disk for VB6. Updates to the type library and his DLLs that work with VB6 can be found in his article. Buy it anyway and read it cover to cover. You'll be a better developer for it.
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