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Rating: 
Summary: Alright could of been better
Review: Much like others have said he spent far too much time on areas in which are less important atleast in my eyes
While this book gives you a basic understanding in VC++ I found that it spent far too much time in the commandline
programing (MC++) when you could teach from the start learning doing it via text boxes/lables which would condence alot of the
reading making it less balky. Over 1/3rd of the book was on MC++ commandline programming! This book was also intended for
college courses and answers to the questions are not answered for those of us learning on our own which is a real downside
and made me skip ALOT of the questions at the end of chapters.
This book doesn't get into real detail about data structors which is an important aspect of programming in general which made me disapointed..
As Jody Blau said:
"Also, I found that its style of giving a few pages of code, followed by a few pages of explaining the code, could have been used much more effectively. Often the "explanations" involved simply stating "what" they did and not "why". "
is So true.
All in all I feel this book is alright but I'm sure theres better out there.
Rating: 
Summary: Typical Prentice Hall "How to...." series.
Review: Talking about Managed Code C++ which I hate most. Painfull experience.
Rating:
Summary: Not great, but not horrilbe
Review: The book is ok, but it just wasn't as useful as I would have hoped.
As for specifics, I would have to say that it did fly by important topics and spend far too much time on less critical ones.
Oh, and one annoying aspect of the book is that it seems to be intended for a college class; and so it includes end of chapter questions that don't include answers...becuase it isn't the "teachers edition." Anyway, that made me grumble a few times.
Also, I found that its style of giving a few pages of code, followed by a few pages of explaining the code, could have been used much more effectively. Often the "explanations" involved simply stating "what" they did and not "why".
Furthermore, the style makes it much more difficult to go back and quickly lookup a detail that you may need to brush up on.
Anyway, I don't mean to sound too negative; like I said the book wasn't horrible, it was just disappointing; escpecially considering that it is on the upper end of the price range for programming books.
Rating: 
Summary: A slightly pear-shaped introduction to VC++.Net
Review: The first thing I noticed about this text is the absence of the familiar colour coding used throughout the other volumes. Could this be a sign of publisher wariness, or simply cost cutting? The book has much in common (including examples) with the other Deitel and Deitel .Net (C#, VB) volumes. Chapter development and layout is very similar. The standard of the material is mostly very good as one would expect, but topic coverage leaves something to be desired. Firstly, it's a personal opinion, but I am not convinced that the several hundred pages devoted to web services is what students of C++ (and new professionals) need or want. Consequently, I ask myself whether this space should be shunted into a separate book. Secondly, there is a very small amount of space devoted to data structures, roughly 53 pages. Much smaller than needs be given the overall size of the book. Moreover, the reader only gets to data structures after 1000 pages of text. This apparent underemphasis on data structures raised a variety questions in my mind about the software engineering philosophy of the text. Thirdly, the book explicitly avoids dealing with ActiveX and COM. Attributes, a new feature in Visual C++ are mentioned in passing, and ATL is not mentioned at all. Overalll, I am less postive about this book than their earlier proramming in C++ text. It seemed to me from reading the book, that there is a formula at play and material is shoehorned to fit accordingly. I fully acknowledge that much of the material is excellent and competently explained, but as an overall learning text on VC++.Net I think improvements are required.
Rating:
Summary: A slightly pear-shaped introduction to VC++.Net
Review: The first thing I noticed about this text is the absence of the familiar colour coding used throughout the other volumes. Could this be a sign of publisher wariness, or simply cost cutting? The book has much in common (including examples) with the other Deitel and Deitel .Net (C#, VB) volumes. Chapter development and layout is very similar. The standard of the material is mostly very good as one would expect, but topic coverage leaves something to be desired. Firstly, it's a personal opinion, but I am not convinced that the several hundred pages devoted to web services is what students of C++ (and new professionals) need or want. Consequently, I ask myself whether this space should be shunted into a separate book. Secondly, there is a very small amount of space devoted to data structures, roughly 53 pages. Much smaller than needs be given the overall size of the book. Moreover, the reader only gets to data structures after 1000 pages of text. This apparent underemphasis on data structures raised a variety questions in my mind about the software engineering philosophy of the text. Thirdly, the book explicitly avoids dealing with ActiveX and COM. Attributes, a new feature in Visual C++ are mentioned in passing, and ATL is not mentioned at all. Overalll, I am less postive about this book than their earlier proramming in C++ text. It seemed to me from reading the book, that there is a formula at play and material is shoehorned to fit accordingly. I fully acknowledge that much of the material is excellent and competently explained, but as an overall learning text on VC++.Net I think improvements are required.
Rating:
Summary: Good on its topic
Review: This book is a very nice choice for learning .NET 1.1 programming with C++, provided that you have enough knowledge of the C++ language itself (as always is the case when programming with C++ in some platform).
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