Customer Reviews

Building Distributed Applications with Visual Basic.NET (White Book)

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If you want a technically stronger book, pick anything by Balena or Richter. Dan Fox had a pretty bright future in the field of writing technical books and evangelizing Visual Basic, but he squandered that potential by hiring on with a company like Quilogy. Steer your attention and your dollars toward authors who write objectively and do not fill their books with oblique references to their third-rate consulting firms.

Hey Spike, if you're going to bash my book at least be man enough to give your name. The review also wasn't relevant as it attacked the company I work for and didn't say anything about the book. I would expect that review and this one to be deleted.

I enjoy the clarity and pace of the author's writing. The first part of the book lays a basic .NET foundation rich in explainations and diagrams. Part two emphasizes Enterprise component building techniques while part three integrates the concepts presented. I found the code samples to have many insights helpful in developing real-world business applications. I highly recommend this book for those moving beyond .NET basics and learning on their own.

I found this book to be a great resource for intermediate to advanced developers. It covers everything you need to know for building desktop and web applications and made the transition from VB6/ASP to VB.NET/ASP.NET easier for me. The book contains very helpful tables that list the functions that are no longer supported in the .NET framework and the new way of programming that correspond to the old way. I particularly liked the code samples that were provided in the book and found them to be extremely helpful when developing real-world business applications. I highly recommend this book for a person who needs to know everything about .NET and is learning on their own.

Personally I did not care for this book. I not sure if it was Dan's style or what, but I have found the Apress .NET titles to be very good in whole. Maybe the book gets better, but I had to put it down after the first 250 pages.

Give it up for a failing, tired, third rate company that is not going anywhere. Dan is not the best but he deserves better. The book is not too bad but I have seen better especially some of the newer books. He's getting better. At least Box is not writing from Q.