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Summary: Look beyond the kooky cover and strange graphics
Review: This is the first programming book I have ever read cover to cover. Outstanding examples, clear and logical style and great progression of explanations more than compensate for the overly whimsical graphics and sometimes odd quotes at the beginning of each chapter.
This is a great book for novice and seasoned programmer alike. Even though I have programmed hundreds of apps in VB, this book not only helped me understand VB.NET, but also filled in quite a few gaps in my understanding of OOP (especially polymorphism) and inheritance/delegates.
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Summary: This may be the worst computer book ever written
Review: This may be the worst computer book ever written. I am sure all the reviews are from the authors or their friends! The author has a way of making even the simplest thing complex! Try another book!Richard Bonn
Microsoft Certified System Engineer
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Summary: Never disappointed me.
Review: Visual Basic.Net How to program series by Deitel is a second book that I had been long looking for since I had bought e-business & e-commerce How to program by Deitel. I had experienced the first book written by Deitel and it has never disappointed me. Now, the second book, VB.NET is the best of all. I found the book is too useful to strengthen my knowledge and skill. With this book I could do self-study very effectively just because the book has well clearly and carefully written to present its points. If I want to compare to any other books, I feel that VB.NET by Deitel, the author is much more understand our needs in our learning process. As the result, the book offers a great deal for helping me to get good grade. I have borrowed some other books of VB.NET. As, my judgment, I found that VB.NET by Deitel is much more updated, established and experienced than any other book. I have more confident and fun to learn programming if there is a guide by Deitel's books. The book is so diverse to cover many topics and yet all written comprehensively for each topics. Yes, the book worth more than its price. Finally, it saves my time, money and energy to search for a better book of VB.NET.
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Summary: The Deitels get it right again!!
Review: Visual Basic.NET is the next big revision of Microsoft's best-selling Visual Basic programming language. Written to take full advantage of their .NET initiative, and fully object-oriented for the first time, this revision of Visual Basic is a radical change from previous versions of Visual Basic. For this reason, programmers wishing to learn this new language need the right resource. Believe me, the right resource is this new book by Deitel and Deitel. As experts in writing very popular and thorough books on programming (see any of their "How To Program" series of books), these authors know how to share the necessary facts in a way that's understandable, offers the necessary information so you can start programming quickly, and doesn't leave any gaps after you're done. One of my favorite things about their books is the end-of-chapter exercises that allow you to write programs of your own, based on the technologies you learned in that chapter (these books are written to be college textbooks, so the exercises are geared toward that type of audience). Many of those reviewing programming books these days have one of two complaints. Either the book is too basic and doesn't cover enough information, or it's too technical and not approachable by someone new to programming. It is in these two areas where the Deitels excel. Their books are literally crammed with information, so that even the most experienced programmer is always sure to find new information to help him write that bit of code that's giving him trouble. But these books are also very approachable by the new programmer. The Deitels take you where you are, guide you in a very understandable fashion into the world of programming so that you learn the technologies by doing (and these aren't simply tiny programs that will never have any real-world value, either. You get real-world experience with the type of code that you might use in a job somewhere). It's been said that reading two or three pages of a book by the Deitels is like reading several pages of another text, due to the amount of informatin these authors pack into each paragraph. So take my advice. Visual Basic.NET is a massive new language that requires a group of instructors who are up to the challenge of its complexities and nuances. This new book by the Deitels is just the ticket to make a .NET programmer out of you.
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Summary: No Other VB.NET book comes even close
Review: What makes me say that? Well, I have read just about every VB.NET book that is out there and this is by far the best of them all. The title of this book should have been VB.NET BIBLE. This book assumes that you have no knowledge of a language at all and literally walks you through step by step to become an expert in this new and exciting language. Every example shown actually works unlike most modern Wrox books that have gone down the drain in quality and completeness. Don't be disappointed by the flashy cover of this book - it does exactly what it says: i.e. teaches you ins and outs of this language. I am yet to find something on the subject that is not covered in this book. The only thing that needs revising is the Tables Of Contents at the beginning of the book. I hope this helps!!
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Summary: Worked for me
Review: With this book I complete two visual basic projects in two weeks. The last time I programmed was in the mid 90s using VB 3.0. As a previous reviewer pointed out, the samples are extensive and I used only a quarter of the material.
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