The Waite Group's Visual Basic 6 How-To

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Summary: Good how-to for progammers
Review: I found that this book provided a solid understanding of a multitude of areas in VB that have been difficult. It isn't a beginners book (unless you want to use the code straight from the book), but if you have some experience, this book can open whole new areas of VB you never discovered or didn't know how to use. After following a couple chapters, I was able to create ActiveX controls with ease and even enhance my VB interface with wizards, not to mention, improving my error trapping and testing application performance.

Two things you should be aware of before purchasing this book. Some of the code on the disk is incorrect or examples are missing files. This can lead to small headaches when an example they suggest you look at doesn't work. The other is, this book only covers specific topics. Read the TOC listings to see if the book provides you the information on the topic you need. Otherwise, you'll be wasting your time.

Rating:
Summary: Good how-to for progammers
Review: I found that this book provided a solid understanding of a multitude of areas in VB that have been difficult. It isn't a beginners book (unless you want to use the code straight from the book), but if you have some experience, this book can open whole new areas of VB you never discovered or didn't know how to use. After following a couple chapters, I was able to create ActiveX controls with ease and even enhance my VB interface with wizards, not to mention, improving my error trapping and testing application performance.

Two things you should be aware of before purchasing this book. Some of the code on the disk is incorrect or examples are missing files. This can lead to small headaches when an example they suggest you look at doesn't work. The other is, this book only covers specific topics. Read the TOC listings to see if the book provides you the information on the topic you need. Otherwise, you'll be wasting your time.

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Summary: This book RULES!!
Review: I HIGHLY recommend both this book and "Visual Basic Black Book" by Steve Holzner. With these two books at your side you won't need anything else.

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Summary: At last, I found what I look for.
Review: I will be a software engineer after a few months. This book is really great. I've learned Database Programming with VB6 with this book. (I had developed some db applications with Delphi 3.0 before, I saw my wrongs with this book. ) Esp. Chapter 12 ,ActiveX and Automation, was great. if you want to use Visual Basic 6 to develop a database application, I really suggest this book.

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Summary: Marginal
Review: Not much useful, cohesive information here. More like a hodge-podge of scattered "hints". I found it to be of little practical use. Suggest Balena's book on VB 6 instead. Pass on this one!

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Summary: Marginal
Review: Not much useful, cohesive information here. More like a hodge-podge of scattered "hints". I found it to be of little practical use. Suggest Balena's book on VB 6 instead. Pass on this one!

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Summary: Great tool for learning Visual Basic 6!
Review: Personally I learned more from this book than I did from my course at college. The steps to complete a project are all well laid out and easy to follow. By following the examples in the book you will learn more about Visual Basic than most other books. It is an indispensible refrence for VB6 programmers who will find it usefull after they have read it. The chapters are self-contained so you do not have to read one chapter after another in a specific order. This book is great for all levels of Visual Basic programmers. Buy the book and learn from it!

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Summary: You won't get How-To's like this from anywhere else!
Review: This book is amazing. I got the VB4 edition and I was still using it. The VB6 edition has many good changes. You won't be sorry if you get this book.

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Summary: Perfect Book for Client/Server in Visual Basic
Review: This book is perfect if you don't have experienced in Client/Server application in Visual Basic. This gives you better understanding how to write a code from startup to the end .This gives you step by step how to code a program in client server. I hoped the WAITE GROUP could publish a Visual C++ coz I wanna learn C in a Near Future