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Summary: Good Coverage
Review: I have been programming for over 3 years now, and this book has a great wealth of code with good solid code review and descriptions. It is obvious by some of the reviews that some people are looking for a book that does more hand holding. If that is what you are looking for, this is not the right book. If you are looking good code breadth and a great rescource, this is the book for you.- VBMite
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Summary: Should not be considered a complete reference
Review: I have found some of the code usefull in this book however I do not regard this book as a complete reference. It does not have a complete listing of objects and members
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Summary: Index Makes it next to useless
Review: I have found this book to be next to useless because of the poorly implemented index. As examples, "Data Types" and "Call" are not included in the Index. Programmers using Visual Basic need to have quick access to looking up data types and specific verbs. Without this, the reader is on his own to dig through the book and hopefully spot what he is looking for. I have gone to this book countless times and rarely find the subject matter I need in the index.
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Summary: disappointed
Review: I have made it to page 47 and I am very frustrated with the book. There are many places when the examples are documented in a step by step fashion but cannot be followed because the instructions are wrong. I have found numerous places where there are steps missing or they are documented incorrectly. The book might get better but the small bits of information missing really slow you down. I do like the layout and topics covered but the small amount of information missing or wrong, make for a nice game of playing detective.
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Summary: NOT A COMPLETE REFERENCE
Review: I think the MS help files would be a better reference than this book. 3/4 of this book is code and has very little explanation of objects and very little definitions of terminology.
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Summary: Good Toolset
Review: I would agree this is not a reference book. But, it is a great code guide. There is a lot of good code ready for use in this book.
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Summary: Not so complete reference
Review: No doubt, they have something useful for me. I found its contents quite incomplete though. In fact - I bought Wayne Freeze's "Expert Guide to Visual Basic 6" and it suites me better. I would not recommend this book to any one who have more than 3 years experience programming Visual Basic - but if you are new to VB E-commerce applications - check out the last 2 chapters. Almost tempted me to buy it before I found the other book.
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Summary: Not so complete reference
Review: No doubt, they have something useful for me. I found its contents quite incomplete though. In fact - I bought Wayne Freeze's "Expert Guide to Visual Basic 6" and it suites me better. I would not recommend this book to any one who have more than 3 years experience programming Visual Basic - but if you are new to VB E-commerce applications - check out the last 2 chapters. Almost tempted me to buy it before I found the other book.
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Summary: Not so complete reference
Review: No doubt, they have something useful for me. I found its contents quite incomplete though. In fact - I bought Wayne Freeze's "Expert Guide to Visual Basic 6" and it suites me better. I would not recommend this book to any one who have more than 3 years experience programming Visual Basic - but if you are new to VB E-commerce applications - check out the last 2 chapters. Almost tempted me to buy it before I found the other book.
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Summary: Visual Basic 6 - Reference
Review: Noel Jerke's book should not be called a 'reference' book in any sense of the word. However, it does cover a lot of VB6 content. Jerke takes a 'teaching by example' approach. Although none of the concepts (objects, collections etc)are really explained in detail, his show how you can use them. Another excellent feature is his step-by-step approach to real-life system development. There are several excellent projects that he has developed from start to finish using production-type databases (SQL server 7). This is definitely not a beginner's book. You need a real reference book like Microsoft's Visual Basic 6 Programmer's Guide in order to totally understand and complete the examples. The programming styles that Jerke has used are consistently those recommended by Microsoft. You can learn a lot from the book provided you have the time and patience.
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