In the authors' words, "Our main aim in writing this book is to write the most advanced book yet available on Microsoft Visual Basic." Written from the perspective of the professional Visual Basic developer, "Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic, 2ND Edition" explores all the possibilities open to a developer using Visual Basic as his or her primary client/server development tool. New to this edition is material on new data access technologies, accessibility issues for the physically challenged, increased support for IIS, BackOffice and mixed language programming, and enterprise support for server side objects, such as the component gallery and Microsoft Transaction Server. The accompanying CD-ROM contains sample code and valuable utilities developed and tested by the authors, The Mandelbrot Set.
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Written by a team of VB experts from the U.K. who call themselves the Mandelbrot Set, the second edition of Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 covers topics central to effective enterprise development. Chapters on project management, debugging, and testing and coding styles can help you get control of the project life cycle in Visual Basic. Other sections provide expert advice on using business objects, databases, exception handling, and other topics that extend the reach of today's Visual Basic. Besides being written in a lively style, Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 imparts a good deal of technical knowledge you aren't likely to find anywhere else, including material on Y2K programming. --Richard Dragan
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Decent book, but lots of 'too specific' information.,
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This review is from: Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic (Mps) (Paperback)
This book has a few good chapters in it "On Error GoToHell" - on errors, "Minutiae" on compiler options andother usually overlooked Visual Basic optimizations, "Well, at Least it compiled OK!" on testing, "Starting With Bases Loaded" on base code, "Mixing Languages with Visual Studio" and "Didn't I Write That Function Last WeeK?" on code reuse. I didn't read the chapters on IIS, databases and CE (if I wanted a book about these subjects, I would buy one). The most surprising chapters dealt with enterprise development and "How to Find, Recruit, and Retain Great Developers" which were just plain out of scope. TMS authors' should write about VB6 in a VB6 book. Those chapters should be elsewhere - maybe a management book. I also did not like the Accessibility in Visual Basic chapter which dealt with making your programs for disabled people. Also, the dating and programming with variant chapters were frivolous and not "advanced" at all.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Content is non programmer-specific,
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This review is from: Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic (Mps) (Paperback)
Most of the content in the book tries to examine the dissection of a programmer's knowledge as taken up by an employer and it is difficult for a hardcore programmer guy to swivel and adapt to the entirely new viewpoint. The reader could more often be gathering tips as to what a good developer should or should not do.Some parts of the book present radical new ideas but on the whole are supported by very little example code which is mostly what a programmer understands. On the whole the book is good - only the developer will have to place himself for once in a totally different seat and take to the content in a different angle.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Way too verbose. Not enough code.,
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This review is from: Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic (Mps) (Paperback)
This book seems to be a lot about nothing. Don't get me wrong, some of the chapters were ok, like the On Error GOTO Hell, and the appendix on coding conventions. But, if you're looking for someting to teach you how to do something in VB, forget it.
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