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Summary: A Good Intro
Review: Good Intro into VB.NET. A lot of things become clearer after reading this book.
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Summary: Very well written and organised but out of date now!!
Review: I have almost finished the book now (up to chapter 8). It is an excellent introduction to VB.Net and the authors explained the concepts very well. The code samples are easy to follow and accurate, well sort of. Although not the fault of the authors, some features are now superceded by Beta 2 version of the software. The most noticeable difference is in the data access area.All in all, I find the book very useful and is a good introduction to VB.Net. The only exception is chapter 8 where the authors tried to cover too many topics at once. Since the release of Beta 2, you need to be mindful of the differences between Beta 1 and 2 (the book understandably only covers Beta 1 but it does try its best to alert readers of potential changes). If I buy the book now I will use this book as a guide but also go through the walkthroughs and sample codes that come with Beta 2 installation which is more up to date.
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Summary: Good weekend read for preparing yourself and your code
Review: I was very skeptical of this book, as WROX has dropped the ball before, with their "intermediate" type books. Fortunately, this book did a nice job of presenting the new concepts, that we all have to look forward to, and backing them up with concrete examples of how we will have to change our current "code thought" to make them work. I was a bit disappointed with the lack of discussion about some of the larger issues that may present themselves in .NET, like late-binding not being supported; however, all in all, the book covered most other "rumors" that I had heard, and questioned. One other plus, was the coverage of Object Oriented Programming with VB.NET. Having never programmed C, I was glad to see a good deal of attention given to explaining concepts like "encapsulation" and "inheritance", which I, for the most part was unfamiliar. I'm very pleased with this book, and have recommended it to several co-workers, who also purchased it and were happy with it. It's a good buy, and it's good preparation material, for what's to come.
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Summary: Not Enough Information
Review: I work in several Microsoft languages and have needed to explore VB.NET just like all the others. Ever since PDC I have been programming in C# as much as I can and have explored VB.NET so make sure that anything non-specific to C# can be accomplished in VB.NET. I also read books for recomendation to others. This book is not one that I will recommend. Not because VB.NET is less of a programming language, but because this book does not cover the amount or topics needed, IMO. A super sound knowledge of OOP is needed because it's maditory in VB.NET. You can not get away from this and you need to understand this first. This book covers these topics so minimally that you don't really have any real-world application and looks sort of like someone explaining the Impliments keyword in VB6. My recommendation is to NOT get this book. And if you are determined to go to VB.NET then please get a book dedicated to OOD (Object Orientated Design) and/or OOP (Object Orientated Programming). The last few chapters are interesting but so high level that it's difficult to get full understanding of how to really use the material. I rated this book a 2 instead of a 3 because of the lack of meat on OOD and OOP. The syntax is there, but the knowledge is just not expressed to where you know why or when.
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Summary: Good, Beta, Best
Review: OK, while we're waiting for the real thing, the public betas are out there being played with. Being worked with. As they were free, or a nominal charge, there's a lot of programmers working with VS.NET, especially VB.NET. This book is excellent. Well-written, full of code samples, aimed squarely at Visual Basic. It covers the Beta 1, but there is a web update for Beta 2, so if something doesn't work (mostly in the data access), then go check the web. Of limited use once the RTM ships, with that caveat I recommend this book to all serious VB developers. Get stuck in!
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Summary: Thank you and your families for this very early VB intro
Review: Thank you for being so fast in giving us this reasonably solid book on VB.Net. This book gives what it promises: a 420 pages overview of the new Visual Basic Version. It doesn't annoy you with the "baby stuff", but its one of the Wrox books for teens and twens. It has extremely small print and is not nearly as deep as Scribners Soap book.
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Summary: Now replaced by "Fast Track Visual Basic.NET"
Review: Thanks to those who had kind things to say about this book. Rocky and I had a blast writing it, and we're glad it was helpful. But things have moved way beyond beta one now, and this book is obsolete and out of print. Recently we finished a complete rewrite of this book for the production version of Visual Basic .NET. That new book is called "Fast Track Visual Basic.NET." We used this book as a starting point, but we did a lot of refinement, and we think it's an even better intro to VB.NET. If you liked this book and wanted to recommend it to others, point them to "Fast Track". I've placed a link to it in the section above on alternatives to this book. Billy Hollis
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Summary: Good examples
Review: This book has very good examples. Do not read the theory from here. The autors contradict themselves at times. The examples are deep and explain the concepts.
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Summary: Good Introduction
Review: This book was written using the Beta 1 release. It is now obsolete and is no longer published.
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Summary: Good Overview
Review: This is a good preview of the technology. It doesn't have a lot of in depth coverage of VB.Net and it is not current, but it is good to show you what can be done and what changes. It is sometimes confusing as to what is VB6 and what is VB.Net if you are not well versed in VB6.
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