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Summary: Great Book!
Review: The author is obviously a very experienced VB Developer and a very honest one at that. This is my 2nd Microsoft Press book and I'm very surprised at the amount of good content and lack of MS propaganda in this book. Francesco Balena clearly explains the do's and don't's of writing VB code and explains and shares benchmark results in varying coding styles. After writing ASP pages for about 6 months it was a natural progression for me to build ASP Components using VB Compiled DLLs and this book not only helped my coding techniques, but increased the performance of my Web Applications. I have really benefitted from his benchmark comments and attribute the performance gains I have received from them. He is one of the few authors who keeps your attention with clear and concise sentences rather than hopeless humor and poorly written technical information. This book is definitely a MUST read if you want to get ahead in developing solid VB Applications, Components, Active X Controls and remote Components via DCOM. That's the part that I'm about to get into..cool stuff man!
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Summary: This is NOT another rehash book!
Review: Thank God this book is NOT another rehash of what the F1 key can display in the time of need. So many programming books are that, another help file reprint but in different form. Instead, the book has been written by probably one of the most qualified persons on the subject of Visual Basic there is. I wrote Francesco Balena an email about a year ago to his Italy address and within 24 hours I had a wonderful reply which answered my question completely. It was a question about 3rd party graphics programs for Delphi. Because of his advice I used the API instead of 3rd party problems and have been thankful ever since.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book has numerous valuable tips throughout. It is extremely readable for beginners and an excellent reference for the more advanced.
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Summary: Best VB Book on the shelves (Beginner or Advanced) NECESSARY
Review: OK, I'll keep this short. I have been using VB for 3 years. I have followed FB's work in VBPJ and saw two of his talks at VBits Chicago. I ordered this book before it was published. I say to all VB folks. Buy this book, DA's API book, BM's HardCore book and SM's Code Complete. Hide in a jungle resort with a P500 and proper Software and take a year off til VB7, W2000, SPSS11 and XML become fashionable ;-) Neila *HEY AMAZONIAN'S !WISH I HAD SIX OR SEVEN STARS!! *HEY HEY!!**
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Summary: It is the best book that I had
Review: I anticipated this book as an excellent resource for developing my database project. The most important thing is that the book covers most of useful controls. Especially, a DataGrid control sample that contains lookup fields helped me in deveople my code.
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Summary: Overshadows all other VB Books
Review: Just like to add my two-cents to the excellent and accurate reviews which follow. This really is the only VB6 Programming book you'll ever need. Balena's authorial voice is an active and intelligent one, which experiments with and thoroughly explores the entire range of VB6 programming. What you get are sophisticated techniques not tricks, and superb, reusable and elegant code examples, not mere tips. I believe there is stuff here you simply will not find anywhere else. An epic work for VB Programming...
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Summary: The best VB book I've ever seen
Review: The authors guide in the simplest way the reader to all the feature and problem of VB programming, from Form thru Class, from vb statement thru object programming. The author always introduce an argument, give a simple solution, show problems of that solution, and give alternative or more advanced way to solve the problem. For me it's the best book of VB (and not only)
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Summary: I own 7 VB programming books, this is the best one by far
Review: Mr. Balena's new book, Programming Microsoft's VB6, is out standing. I just got the book Friday and I am using information from it already, like the ability to send text to various sections in the Data Report. (Not in any book/help file I could find.) I am an old Clipper head and have reluctantly given up on Visual Objects in favor of VB. This is my seventh VB5/6 book. Now I can throw the others away. They do not come close to the information provided. I knew it would be good based on his articles and tips in the VBPJ. The tips that I have picked up in the two days that I have had the book have paid for it. Thanks for publishing it.
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Summary: Excellent Book!!!
Review: A very good book on advanced VB topics. This book is NOT intended for first-timers, but for proffesional VB developers. Mr Balana's language is clear and to the point. The FlatToolbar sample is Chapter 11 is worth the cost of the book; it explain how to use an User Control to simulate a IE-style toolbar the easy way without reverting to using Dll's and third-party controls. Overall, one of the best books currently published by MS Press.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!!
Review: JUST THE BEST VB BOOK TO DATE , IN MY HUM BLE OPINIO
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