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Summary: A Must Read for all levels of Visual Basic Programmers
Review: There are some books you wish every VB programmer would read, this is one of them. I used this book as a helpful reference to develop programming standards for two developer groups. I did not agree with all the standards in the book. I felt that some of them were not actually the standards followed in the industry, but most were well laid out and if followed would improve the VB programming industry. Some areas were covered more indepth than others and those that were not covered so well probably should have just been left out. (Source Safe, Error Handling [get an error handling book]) All-in-all a very good book and I don't believe there is a better VB standards book on the market today.
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Summary: Ok for beginners
Review: There is obviously a need for such a book. However, Microsoft Press suggests this book for intermediate to advanced users. I would target this at beginning to (perhaps) intermediate users. Others will be disappointed as I was. Lots to disagree with here as well. A recomendation is made to only place ByRef in parameter definitions if the user INTENDS to change the parameter while in the routine. ByRef parameters which the user does not intend to change receive no prefix. Not the best advice. Another section suggests branching to a graceful exit point if input data is invalid. Since invalid input data generally suggests a problem elsewhere in the code, a better suggestion is assertion (a subject not discussed and perhaps out of scope) and/or raising an error. Some of the treatments seem pretty shallow - for example, the section on error handling is more a tutorial on the basic error object.
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Summary: Light reading but fairly good; must have for newcomers
Review: This book is definitely a welcomed one. For all of you VB Leads that needs to maintain standards documentation, this book could replace that documentation or at least, give you a pretty good head start. For all of the non-experienced (or not trained) VB programmers out there, following the guidelines of this book will make you much better, efficient, and 'marketable' since everybody will now be able to read your code and actually understand it. Now we all know that documentation & good coding is a must but developers just don't it. Obviously, this book can't help that but it will at least give Lead developers something to stand on and work it out from there.
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Summary: Light reading but fairly good; must have for newcomers
Review: This book is definitely a welcomed one. For all of you VB Leads that needs to maintain standards documentation, this book could replace that documentation or at least, give you a pretty good head start. For all of the non-experienced (or not trained) VB programmers out there, following the guidelines of this book will make you much better, efficient, and 'marketable' since everybody will now be able to read your code and actually understand it. Now we all know that documentation & good coding is a must but developers just don't it. Obviously, this book can't help that but it will at least give Lead developers something to stand on and work it out from there.
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Summary: Excellent overview of VB coding standards
Review: This is a very good book for someone looking for a set of standards for writing Visual Basic code. The author covers pretty much all VB topics as related to coding standards. I've been programming in VB for many years, so much of this was not new to me, but it did have some helpful tips. His chapter on comments is very good and had some helpful insight for writing better comments. The last chapter covers how to set up Visual Source Safe, a topic that I was interested to see included here. It is somewhat unrelated, but it is in fact a very useful step-by-step guide to setting up this tool for source code control. This alone makes this book worthwhile if you're not using VSS now and would like to.
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Summary: Good standards book from a great author
Review: This is a very good book on Visual Basic 6.0 standards. Every Visual Basic shop should use this book as a guideline for setting their standards. The author constantly writes books that are 4 or 5 stars. His book "MCSD in a Nutshell" is one of the best study guides for the 2 Visual Basic 6.0 exams. This book was provided free by a former employer, but I practice these standards on daily basis. Following these standards, will reduce your maintenance time and will make your source code much easier to read.
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Summary: Excellent Team Resource
Review: This is an excellent book for VB development teams. It contains very useful, practical standards suggestions, and it's very easy to read. About 95% of it could just be followed without change, with the rest subject to local embellishments. I haven't come across another VB book that is this useful, and would be a fabulous headstart for anyone starting out on the VB road.
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Summary: it helped me write better code
Review: This is book is definately needed. It seems that every vb developer I've known writes code in whatevr way they think is best. This makes it very difficult when it comes to someone else maintaining their code. This book offers clear examples of best practices for writing code. I particularly like the way Microsoft uses 2 colors when displaying code. Other than the interface chapters (which are very handy), there aren't many figures. I would really like to see some standards on writing database applications (since that's what so many of us do), but perhaps that's for another edition. A tear-out card of the standards would also have been nice, but the cd version makes up for this mostly. I'm surprised by the person who gave the book 2 stars. Yeah, I tend to disagree with a few things in the book, but the author points out early on that that is going to happen. But then again, I wasn't expecting to learn any advanced programming techniques, just how to better my code - which I have thanks to this book.
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Summary: An invaluable programmer's guide.
Review: Use programming standards, make code more reliable by eliminating questionable variables, and provide flexible error controls with the aid of this survey of common programming pitfalls and their solutions. Any working with Microsoft's Visual Basic program will find Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic an invaluable programmer's guide.
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