Learning to Program with VISUAL BASIC.Net

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Summary: A great tool for anyone wanting to get into .NET
Review: The author of this book speaks from his worldwide experience with the .NET framework and E-commerce. He takes lectures and conducts seminars throughout the world and disperses his knowledge freely to those he teaches. I was fortunate to be present for one of his courses in Auckland, New Zealand and the information I have received at that 6-day seminar, as backed up in his book is currently enabling me to better my career in IT by providing me with an extra edge to my technical skill set. Great book! I highly recommend you read it.

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Summary: Content Fine but oh the errors
Review: This is a well structured text with a blend of tutorial, informational, quiz and project material.
It suffers, however, from a large number of errors (the companion web site lists 7 A4 pages of errors for the 2nd printing - Errata) and the use of 'old style' constructs MsgBox and not MessageBox.Show; Instr and not .Substring; UCase() and not .ToUpper etc.
Unfortunately, the comprehensive style and content of the text is affected by the above.
It looks like a book, based on a VB6 offering, that was rushed out to meet the .Net market.
An update to the existing content with newer style constructs and some effective proof reading would make it an excellent text.