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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book is great. The author has a way of explaining VB in a very understanding way. I got this book for under $3.00 new! It was the best $3.00 I spent this year!
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Summary: This book rocks!
Review: This book taught me how to get going with VB.NET. You won't find anything really hardcore here. but if you're looking to quickly get up to speed on VB.NET, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU! You'll be creating cool interfaces and programming objects in no time - well, 24 hours at least. lol :)A+!
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Summary: Excellent introduction to visual basic .net
Review: This is a great book for learning visual basic .net. I liked how the author teaches you in the same order that you develop, first with the environment, then interface design, then coding, and finally distributing. The first chapter is a quick tour which has you building a usuable application right off the bat! This book won't make you an expert,but it will get you going and you can build simple programs that even work with databases when your done.
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Summary: Basics For Beginners, But Get The "Starter Kit" Version
Review: This is a pleasant book (but now the wrong edition) for the beginner with no prior VB experience. Teaching is done via many VERY SIMPLE projects, and these cannot be done without Visual Studio. You want to buy the latest version "Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 (VB .NET) in 24 Hours Complete Starter Kit" which includes a DVD with a trial version of the latest Visual Studio. Projects are all for Windows Forms projects including one session on automating Excel (from a Windows form). Visual Basic.NET's most exciting use for many is for the code behind ASP.NET Web Forms when developing applications with a web browser user interface. The author does mention such use very briefly but offers no examples. There are many fine introductory books at this same beginner level on VB.NET and ASP.NET; so if web applications are where you are headed, this book will not be the best choice. This book might be nice easy step up for someone moving from the Excel macro (VB for Applications, VBA) world into more general applications. If you are a professional but new to VB, the book can be completed in a week end; and you can then pass it on to a kid just getting into programming. As noted by another reader, the description of the language is too brief to give this book value as a reference. Author James Foxall has many books to his credit and writes nicely. For the most part he eschews the silliness of many professionals writing "down" for beginners. There are a surprising number of editing mistakes, but nearly all of the code runs as presented.
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Summary: Excellent Starter Book
Review: Those looking to start programming in VB will find this book very useful. The chapters are arranged in a logical manner so that the user will build upon knowledge from previous chapters. The author explains things in easy to understand terms, anyone could learn to start using VB with this book.
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Summary: Determine your future direction to Visual Basic mastery!
Review: You will learn from beginning to advanced level, everything you will need is included with useful examples. You will understand how to create Forms, Buttons, Controls, Methods, Events and also a fantastic Interface. I am sure you will enjoy from author's sincerity. He treats you as a friend and you will learn things so good and quickly. Finally, you will learn programming in Visual Basic platform. You can learn about Procedures, Functions, Operators, and at the end of the book you can take a look at Web Programming. I am sure you will find it useful. Try it!
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Summary: Needed more depth in the language
Review: Your perspective on this book will depend on your background in VB. If you already know the language, then this book will be of no use to you.. This is a book for beginners, those who need their mouse manipulation hand held when they first see the IDE.
From that perspective, the book is minimally adequate, lacking any depth. The basics of the language are covered in a series of short exercises. Unfortunately, the emphasis is on the GUI objects available and there is very little code used in the examples. None of the programs does anything of substance, and there are few programs that involve more than one of the structures available in VB.
While the title emphasizes VB.NET, there is little in the book that is unique to the .NET iteration. Many of the exercises could easily be performed in version 6. The .NET version is the first one to be truly object-oriented, a major change, and yet very little space is devoted to the topic. Granted that it is a hard topic to understand, but given that that is now the fundamental structure of the language, it must be explained in detail.
While you can learn most of the features of VB.NET from this book, it does not cover enough of the object-oriented fundamentals that beginners need to know about the language.
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