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Summary: Not of Much Use
Review: For whatever reason, the trend in computer book publishing these days is to produce a thick book (1000 or more pages would be great), double spaced, with large fonts and low information density. This book is not double spaced.Although the cover bills it as a "Special Edition", "Comprehensive", "Authoritative", I did not find this to be true. In general, it covers the topics I was interested in, but the coverage is shallow and uninstructive. Each chapter tends to skip around haphazardly, without much of a unifying goal. The examples are poorly thought out, and often confusing. They illustrate only the most basic ideas. Many of the things you might want to do in a real application - standard things - are not covered. I found the chapter on database access and bound controls particularly disappointing. The book would be OK for a beginner, if there weren't some better beginner's books out there.
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Summary: Good for VB Programmers!
Review: I agree this book is not for the beginner. It does do a good job of explaining the basics of VB if you are patient enough to use it in conjunction with a free tutorial from one of the many VB sites on the web. But, the examples skip around, and they do not build continuity with each other. The coverage on DAO is pretty decent. However, with the release of VB6, this book is pretty dated with regard to ADO, WebClasses,etc. I wouldn't buy this book if you are only going to have 1 VB book. However, if you can pick it as a discounted remainder as I did, it's all right.
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Summary: Decent Second Book
Review: I agree this book is not for the beginner. It does do a good job of explaining the basics of VB if you are patient enough to use it in conjunction with a free tutorial from one of the many VB sites on the web. But, the examples skip around, and they do not build continuity with each other. The coverage on DAO is pretty decent. However, with the release of VB6, this book is pretty dated with regard to ADO, WebClasses,etc. I wouldn't buy this book if you are only going to have 1 VB book. However, if you can pick it as a discounted remainder as I did, it's all right.
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Summary: There are plenty others better than this!
Review: I am still in the process of reading this book. It has a nice style. I find that it jumps around from topic to topic a bit, so there are some gaps. Of course it is impossible to expect any one book to provide all the answers. I always try and get my hands on several to get a more complete picture. Overall I would rate this book as just above average. I do appreciate the focus on the Jet engine and relational databases. It is quite intensive.
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Summary: Good for VB Programmers!
Review: I bought this book to add to my collections of references regarding this great programming language. To tell you the truth this is one of my sought after references, because it discusses topics not revealed in other books about Visual Baisc. I would definitely keep this in my library.
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Summary: Substandard
Review: The mistakes in the programs annoyed me enough to write the publisher. That was about two months ago, I have yet to receive a reply. This book was definately rushed out the door. The ActiveX section was worthless. The typos, lack of clear directions and lack of response from the publisher make this book one to skip. On an up note, I'm now using the Visul Basic 5 Certification Exam Guide(McGraw Hill) and find it excellent. I'm sure they have it here.
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