The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Visual Basic .NET

Rating:
Summary: Are you really an Idiot???
Review: Simplistic in the extreme... don't expect to be able to do much with visual basic after completing this book. A quote from the book:
"By the way, a Visual Basic .NET program uses an asterisk (*) to represent multiplication, not a X symbol as you might expect."
New topics are covered in just enough depth to become familiar but useless. This is a painless introduction to the topic... however the real pain will come when you try utilizing all the knowledge you've gained and discover that the depth of your understanding isn't sufficient really to do much more than write trivial programs similiar to the trivial examples presented in the book. For example: scrollbars are introduced as stand alone objects without mention of how they might be made part of a window.

Rating:
Summary: Extremely Good for all Beginners
Review: There are many visual basic.net books out there but this one explains the basic of vb.net very well. I will recomend all beginners to go for this book.