Special Edition Using Visual Basic.NET

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Summary: Not a beginers book as it wants you to think
Review: This book is easy to read, and it has a lot of useful information, but the fact is that the book sucks for beginers. Hear me out. I've started this book and it immediately jumps into two semi-complex programs that are about a page long with all sorts of stuff that gets NO specific explanation. I thought, okay it will get better. You don't even get to the actualy coding until page 140. The coverage of the compiler is nice and all, but this book goes into advances topics without explaining the basics. You are left dumbfounded as example after example uses functions etc that the author doesn't even try to partially explain. A lot of quick tips are given and small isolated examples of functions, but this book is not a tutorial for a beginner. This book is more of a "pretty good" review of vb.net for an already intermediate visual basic programmer. I'm going to need another book or to find some really good tutorials on the net because this book is just leaving me confused.

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Summary: Rewritten VB6
Review: This not a VB.NET-Book but a rewritten VB6-book. The authors did not show the new ways to develop .NET-Software.