Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0

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Summary: Not for amateurs or beginners
Review: This book never was intended for amateur or beginner Visual Basic developers. This is an advanced Visual Basic book for advanced or more experienced developers. This book is "The Bible" when it comes to programming Visual Basic. This book contains a lot of pages and is one of the thickest books in my Visual Basic 6.0 collection but it is one of the most used books that I have. Although not really a "reference book", I use it to find examples of hard-to-solve problems. If if is not covered in this book, there probably is no solution.

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Summary: Not for the rest of us
Review: If you want to work at Microsoft maybe this is the book to study. If you are not a professional programmer and are trying to make a simple program, get another book. Amidst all
the unnecessary details, I could not find information on how to make a simple executable that could run without invoking the whole VB6 code.

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Summary: Super Book
Review: If I had to have only one book on VB in my library, this would be it. Balena writes well and is a wonderful communicator. He has many examples which are well chosen. I bought the book because I had read some of his articles in various journals and always found them stimulating. By now I have found his book invaluable and it never leaves my desk. The only beef I have is not with the author but with Microsoft Press. It is a big book and, my copy at least, is falling apart and I might have to buy another copy for that reason.

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Summary: One great book
Review: I bought several books in vb and this one is the best. Its easy to understand. It gives you several programming options and gives advantages and disadvantages on each option.

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Summary: Very good, but not a tutorial.
Review: This is an excellent book for the intermediate VB programmer. It is not in tutorial format, so it is not (imo) suitable for beginners. If you are looking for a tutorial to take you from the ground up, you should probably look for another book first, then come back to this one.

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Summary: Great book for people from other programming languages
Review: The book doesn't waste you time on the basic concepts that are universal to all programming languages. It's not a simple compilation of instrution sheets for you to follow step by step like the dummy books. Instead, it teaches you WHY. It's relatively slow to read this book, simple because it packs more useful info onto each page than the other books out there. I would rather spend the same amount of time crawling through only 10 pages of this book than flipping through 100 pages of some other VB book and still learned nothing.

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Summary: It's pretty good - like the rest have said
Review: Yea - this is a pretty good VB6 book alright. If you are a beginner Gary Cornell's "VB6 From the Ground Up" is, IMO, better. But, I'd buy it again if I had to do it all over.

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Summary: Great book! Helps me fix my problems!
Review: I can say that choosing a good VB book is hard to find. I ran into several mistakes in finding a good one that can guide me through different projects for school and business. As a matter of fact, I bought almost 4 books before this one. I was still a little skeptical in choosing this book but once I realized how much good information it has, I was impressed. I am a business major trying to learn some good programming and this book taught me just that! I recommend it to everybody.

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Summary: Took me from beginner-intermediate to advanced-intermediate
Review: This book was amazing! The descriptions in this book took me from having no clue what a class module or oop is to understanding oop in one hour! This will be especially important in VB .NET since everything there is an object. You need to have a basic understanding of visual basic to understand this book, this shouldn't be your first book. But I do not think that it was ment to be. This book also has a great section on internet programming. Like it says in the book, it covers everything from ADO to Zorder.

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Summary: This book is the one- it's awesome
Review: Finally a VB book that delivers. I went out and got it based on what I read here, I totally agree with everyone. The book is well written, and you really learn. It will get me to the next level. Francisco...you are the man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ed