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Summary: Another lousy book from Sybex
Review: I'm a baby VB programmer and I found this book to be an excellent resource, even though it is rated as an Intermediate/Advanced book! This one deserves two thumbs up!
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Summary: Well worth the cost!
Review: I'm a baby VB programmer and I found this book to be an excellent resource, even though it is rated as an Intermediate/Advanced book! This one deserves two thumbs up!
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Summary: Hard to go wrong with this one
Review: Sybex's "Access 97 Developer's Handbook" was so useful for me a year ago I bought this one for VB without even skimming it at the store. Previous reviewers are right that it's tilted a bit towards SQL Server 7, but that was OK with me since it was what I wanted to learn more of.I've spent more time reading it than "Expert Guide to Visual Basic", also by Sybex, and would consider this one to be the more detailed of the two. So many instruction books out there are a waste... Do this, do that, type this in, "Voila! You've made an ADO form!" without giving you the WHY of it all. (Especially those misleading "Learn VB in 21 Days" style books. What a joke...) You will be keeping this one within arm's reach!
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Summary: a lot of that should have been in, is missing
Review: The book is full with examples, but a lot of them needs some files from the CD, and very much of them are missing from the CD, poor sybex support for such problems !!!
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Summary: This book has some hideous errors..But also great examples.
Review: This book is only of value to an advanced VB user. I have gotten some good ideas from some of the example code. However it is troublesome in that one does not know when the book can be trusted. Chapter 17 . Optimizing VB Applications has a section Simplify The Math (page 942)which has very poor examples as to how to optimize code. One example which employs the random number generator Rnd() is hideously in error in that it is not only a less than optimum way to avoid the use of the power ^ , but it uses Rnd() two times which uses two different random numbers when the task was to square a function which used one random number. The book provides good examples for advanced users, but is of little value to people who are trying to learn Visual Basic. Leo J. Landkamer programmer at large
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Summary: Do not waste your time with this book.
Review: This is a POORLY written book. The author(s) simply changed their old RDO book to ADO, and sold it as new for VB 6. Many of the samples will not work or compile, because they forgot to change connection/recordset from RDO to ADO.
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Summary: What a waste!
Review: This is POORLY written book. Many sample programs do not work or even compile. Many of the variables still use the name "RDO" instead of ADO. Obviously, the author(s) never tested their sample programs, because they do not run. So be careful what book you buy. You could waste $....
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