Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0

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Summary: Buy this book!
Review: I am resonably new to programming in general, and sent two weeks leaning VB6 from a variety of sources. I bought this book as a reference, and it is the best money I have spent in a long time. This reference is not aimed at learning you to program - but if you have some programming knowledge and wish to learn VB6 in detail, you can't go wrong with this book.

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Summary: Your best choice if your an experienced programmer
Review: If your sick of manual "rehashes" and need real how to information, get this book. It's not for beginners, but is extremely well written. As an experienced programmer (20 years) I found this book to be the most usefull of all the various VB books I have purchased or examined. Every time I browse this book I find something new and usefull, and find it difficult to put down.

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Summary: Not for beginners
Review: This book is definitely preaching to the converted. In other words if you are already an experienced VB programmer I'm sure its great. But for a VB beginner like me its no good. (I have been programming other languages for ten years.) The basics are breezed over and example code uses syntax that is yet to be discussed, so it gets very confusing. I would suggest that anyone who wishes to learn VB find another book. That is what I will be doing!

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: As a moderately experienced programmer I am always looking for exceptional books which will help in my quest to learn VB. Among the 10 or so I have recently purchased, this book is the best all-around quide to VB6. It covers only the more recent techniques, with a range and depth which is amazing. If I need to find out how to do something, this is usually the only book I open. The code is not polished, and the comments are sometimes a bit odd, but the structure and ideas expressed in code are excellent. Although you probably wont want to drop the code directly into your projects, if you take the time to understand what he is doing, and polish the code yourself, you will have both a valuable code resource and learned the topic well. A couple of other books I recommend are by Lhotka and Moniz. If anyone finds books at this level of excellence, PLEASE say so here!

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Summary: up to date and by far the best
Review: This is part of a e-mail to Francesco Balena. as someone who is new to programing and trying to learn how to do it how would i have found the answer with out your help? and i must say i have about 6 to 9 ( about $50 each what a waste) books on how to program and by far yours is the most up to date and easy to understand by far i do not even look at the other book just your thanks a lot.

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Summary: Very theoretical in nature with no practice exercises
Review: This book is one long essay. It goes over the head for moderately competent VB programmers.This book suffers from a total absence of practice examples. Although it is comprehensive in style and offers great tips, it glosses over fundamental issues such as creation of menus. I had communicated with the author. His advice to master VB was practice and practice. Advice that his book ignores completely. I had the computer on while reading this book and never once had an opportunity to use the computer.I returned the book after just 5 chapters and got my money back.

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Summary: Best VB book available
Review: Take it from a guy who has bought way too many VB books, this is the only one you need. This author has done his homework, and it shows! The book is simply loaded with tricks & tips as well as clearly explaining the language in a concise manner. Although I'm still part way through the book, I'm sure this will be a handy reference after I'm finished.

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Summary: Most comprehensive VB book I've read
Review: This is the most comprehensive, clear and concise VB book that I have read. It is packed with many advanced tips and source code which actually works!! I added this book to my list of favorite Visual Basic 6 books on my "Visual Basic Book Reviews" web site in a hurry. A must have resource for all VB6 programmers.

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Summary: The best book on VB I've read yet.
Review: This book is the clearest, most concise book on VB that I have come across yet. The text is clearly written, the code works and is easy to follow. Whether you wish to work with the Windows API, build an ActiveX dll or build an IIS application, this book will show you how. It taught me how to build a WebClass, and more importantly, how to *depoly* it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

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Summary: Very good book
Review: This is an excellent book where you will find plenty of new and useful informations that may not exist anywhere else. The book is an original and very intelligent description of VB and cannot be compared with VB manual from Microsoft or other sources. I have a five stars for the chapters describing programming database. The missing star comes from the fact that sometimes you have to get some background VB knowledge from other sources to really enjoy the book.