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Summary: WASTE OF MONEY
Review: I am now Certified with a score 857/1000. I found this book very good in debugging,Classes, ActiveX, and Databases and ADO. To be certified you must read from MSDN and read the Books that accompany the training course in VB -if you have it-. Some exam questions came from this book. I printed the Package and deployment wizard,visual component manager and Source safe from the MSDN and read it since the book was weak in covering this aspect. I found one mistake in the book which is corrected here "The recordset object has only the find method it doesnt have findfirst,findnext ....".I wish this was the first book i read when i started learning VB. lastly ....... Michael Mckelvy thanQ very much.
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Summary: a Good start for beginers and good review for professionals
Review: I am now Certified with a score 857/1000. I found this book very good in debugging,Classes, ActiveX, and Databases and ADO. To be certified you must read from MSDN and read the Books that accompany the training course in VB -if you have it-. Some exam questions came from this book. I printed the Package and deployment wizard,visual component manager and Source safe from the MSDN and read it since the book was weak in covering this aspect. I found one mistake in the book which is corrected here "The recordset object has only the find method it doesnt have findfirst,findnext ....". I wish this was the first book i read when i started learning VB. lastly ....... Michael Mckelvy thanQ very much.
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Summary: A well written smooth flowing book
Review: I found the book very easy to read, and it clearly explained many concepts that I was not familiar with. I used only this book, which I understood pretty well by the time I took the test, and the MSDN Library (Which I didn't get all the way through for lack of time) and missed the test by one question. Overall I found it one of the best written books on a technical subject I have read in terms of layout of thought processes, clarity, and not jumping all over the place like many books do. I am sure that the information for one more question was in there, so it WAS enough to pass, (barely) but I had read much of the MSDN VB information. (Which I also found helpful, but not nearly enough to pass with.) If you are looking to pass the test and you are presently confined to just one or two areas of understanding of VB, I would recommend this book, as you will actually learn the stuff. But buy another book too. The other book should be on COM or on Deployment which I believe was not covered nearly to the depth of the test. It is a tough test, it should take two books, as one book couldn't cover everything touched on by the exam. Also, the free software included with the CD was worth the money I paid for the book by itself.
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Summary: A Good Reference
Review: I havent taken the exam (I've procrastinated) so I cant review the book for that. I do know that I have referenced this book repeatedly on how to do stuff. Since the book is geared towards the exam questions - which is the stuff you should know how to do - it is a great reference for looking up stuff that you should know how to do but sometimes dont. I like the book.
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Summary: To be used only as a foundation from which to study.
Review: I took the VB6 Desktop exam yesterday and passed with a score of over 900. I aportion about 20% of this success to this book. Together with lack of detailed information, there were far too many errors in the book. For example: False information is given about Unattended Execution, the Call Stack, and the Stop statement! There are even some cases where text has obviously been copied directly from Sybex's VB5 study guide: Page 473 has a reference to using VB5.exe to start the development environment! I found that I had to use other resources to gain more information about VCM, P&D Wizard, The Project Properties and Options dialog boxes, the Data Bindings collection, Callback functions, and Ambient and Extender properties. In summary, the book was good for providing a foundation from which to study from, but only at a basic level. The information had to be "fleshed out" with references to MSDN and of course Transcender. Good luck in the exam! Footnote: The chapter on ActiveX Controls was good though!
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Summary: Lacking for the exam
Review: I was starting from scratch with this as my main reference. I was annoyed by the errors in the book, not all of which are corrected on the Sybex web site. I also couldn't find things that the book said were on the accompanying CD.. I'm sure they are not there. It is lacking in the package and deployment area and I had to use "Programming Components with Microsoft VB6" (2nd edition) from Microsoft Press to understand more of COM EXE & DLL. I found the MSDN Library CD to be very helpful with Package & Deployment. I also bought some sample questions because the ones in the book are easier than the real thing. These together did the business, the book alone, for the inexperienced, will not.
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Summary: WASTE OF MONEY
Review: Please don't buy this book!... The author seems to have forgotten that he is writing a book to prepare the readers for the exams. The book covers the basics of Visual Basic and the questions that are provided don't even come close to the real exam. The book's contents are misleading -- the reader will think that the author will have covered the topic in depth. However, the author will just give you the basics of it. Furthermore, the main areas such as Package and Deployment and Visual Source Safe are barely covered. I used "MCSD in a nutshell" book from O'Reilly publications along with Transcender exams to clear the test.
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Summary: Dismally Inadequate
Review: The cover of this book says "Everything You need to Prepare for - and Pass - Exam 70-176". It doesn't come close ! The book contains a large number of errors, but its worst failing is that it is far too simple. I got halfway through the book and in my frustration decided to check what else was on offer through Amazon. It wasn't a great surprise to see all the other poor reviews of this book, but I also fortunately read many recommendations for the New Riders book for VB 6. I bought it and can wholeheartedly recommend it (it covers both 70-175 and 70-176).
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Summary: Get 50% of the real thing
Review: This book is OK for reading and learning the basics. The depth of Exam objectives cover by this book isn't enough. VSS is almost forgotten in this book. P&D was too far simplistic never got into the real exam questions scenarios. Use this one as a starter practice with transcender to get 20% more knowledge. The key to this exam is experience, actual programming scenarios. If you are new to VB, it might take you a while to get certified.
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