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Summary: Great Read
Review: Could not put the book down. Always clear and never boring. Read it cover-to-cover.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: Could not put the book down. Always clear and never boring. Read it cover-to-cover.
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Summary: Perfect and concise. Thanks man, this rocks!!!
Review: Cover to cover this book sails through the hype dispensing nuggets not to be forgotten!!! .Net and C#-aholics had breathed so much hot air, I was having trouble find a place to start. Once received I put everything else aside. I used to use arrays, types, RDS, and ADO to get the plumbing done but now its OOP, and serialization from now on!!! I got so many good pearls from this book its ridiculous.
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Summary: Speaks VERY well & clearly to Experienced VB Developers
Review: First plus of this book: ONE AUTHOR. Therefore there is a consistent "voice" throughout the book. He writes as though you are having a conversation and explains things in a way that was easy for me (a VB programmer with many years of VB and many more of other xBase languages) to understand. Additionally, when he is explaining a topic and mentions another process that might be new to a VB programmer, he will address that right away. Even if just to say, "by the way, that other thing I mentioned is explained in Chapter 10". My big test for this book was if someone could FINALLY explain "delegates" to me, and he passed with flying stars. I have read two magazine articles and two chapters from other books on this topic and they were like reading physics manuals. So MacDonald has me as a new fan!
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Summary: Clear and helpful insight for vb.net
Review: I bought six dot net books and this one is the closest to my heart. I am a powerbuilder programmer with three years of experience and we are moving to asp.net and I did not know visual basic. After reading this book, I think I can handle visual basic 7, which vb.net is, with confidence and hopefuly with ease.
The main strength of this book is the author's indepth understanding of .net and where the platform is comming from. And also his indepth understanding of OO., which is the completely new frame for vb7(vb.net). Another strength of this book is its 'economy'. Four hundred some pages of 'packed understanding' will make you feel you have very efficiently invested your time. I will without any qualm recommend this book to any programmer going into .net. It is a jimdandy .net primer of a book. After reading this book, I also bought "asp.net unleashed" by sams publishing. Which is a very detailed 1400 page book. I still have to hold verdict on that one.
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Summary: An absolute must for the VB Programmer
Review: I have been programming in VB since 1992 and decided to move to VB.NET when it was released but found the learning curve was immense - until I bought the book of VB.NET. This book is my Bible, it sits besides my computer all the time. Without delving into the VB language, it simplifies the transition to VB.NET for the experienced VB Programmer. It's not for VB learners nor does Matthew propose that it is. If you know VB this is the book to ease the quantam leap from VB to VB.NET - explained in logical steps with excellent examples. I have had to EMail Matthew with a few queries and the response is always prompt and helpful. There are certainly other books you need in your arsenal - such as Francesco Balena's Microsoft Reference - but this one is a must.
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Summary: What a pleasure!!
Review: I'm converting from VB6. I've bought a few books on VB .NET including those by Balena and Connell. This book suits me perfectly. It is very clear, sufficiently comprehensive with a very readable and pleasant style without being patronizing or clever clever. The best introduction to the new IDE I've come across and then it gets even better. I greatly appreciate Matthew MacDonald's obvious expertise and his ability to communicate it. I haven't written many revues but this book deserves one.
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Summary: Very Insightful Treatment of VB.Net
Review: The author accomplishes exactly what he set out to do, provide insight into VB.Net. Lots of good code samples that work as advertised and support the book's discussion. This book is not a rehash of the product documentation it goes way beyond to show you how things actually work and how you can use them. Very good code samples from a best practices point of view.
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Summary: An excellent resource for VB .NET programmers
Review: The Book Of VB .NET: .Net Insight for VB Developers by author, educator, and MCSD developer Matthew MacDonald is a comprehensive, handy, and highly practical resource for Visual Basic programmers seeking to create everything from Internet applications to highly sophisticated Windows operating system programs. Individual chapters cover VB .NET basics, object-oriented programming, printing, XML, threading, web services, and much more. Sample code and step-by-step instructions effectively illustrated with computer screenshots all contribute to the goal of an easy-to-use guide to help anyone develop first-class applications with .NET. The Book Of VB .NET is an excellent resource for VB .NET programmers of all skill levels.
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Summary: Clear, Concise, Accurate
Review: The Book of VB.NET is extremely well organized, explaining many of the details that other books only mentioned briefly and left me confused about. This book's explanations of how to use VB's ADO to talk to an SQL server cleared up many questions I had about how all the various dataset objects work together. The downloadable samples were extremely helpful. Highly recommended!
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