Core Visual Basic 5 (Core Series) [Paperback]

Gary Cornell (Author), Dave Jezak (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1997 | Series: Core Series

With Microsoft's Visual Basic 5.0 available, this book intends to address the new features and the differences between 5.0 and earlier versions. It covers ActiveX EXEs and DLLs, advanced concepts, and object oriented programming.

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From the Back Cover

Visual Basic 5 is a major advance for developers, bringing the power of object-oriented programming and ActiveX controls to the highly-productive Visual Basic development environment. Modeled on the best-selling classic Core Java, this book is specifically designed to help expert programmers to become equally sophisticated VB5 developers as quickly as possible, by building on their existing skills and knowledge.Introduces Visual Basic for expert programmers familiar with other languages; includes extensive coverage of new VB5 features, and comparisons with previous releases. Details the development of ActiveX EXEs and DLLs, as well as object-oriented VB5 programming techniques. Includes complete coverage of profiling, testing and optimizing VB applications. Covers the VB5 class builder, collections, enums, scoping and object models. Presents expert guidance by Microsoft's VB5 wizards specialist on how to create create your own VB5 wizards, both for use in the IDE and as standalone applications. Much of the information in this book has never been documented before, making Core Visual Basic 5 an essential resource for every advanced developer who plans to work with VB5. Expert programmers who want to learn Visual Basic 5, or build on the Visual Basic skills they already have.

Product Details

• Paperback: 912 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137483287
• ISBN-13: 978-0137483280
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,512,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars no structure, no map, April 15, 1999

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J. W. Collett ""the sound of one hand"" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Core Visual Basic 5 (Core Series) (Paperback)

I have to concur with those disappointed readers. I am an experienced programmer. I have programmed for years with C and GUI tools. I have done object-styled programming in Ada, understand OO concepts and have even done some OOP. I should be the perfect audience, but so far I am at sea with this book.

I have trudged through the first one and a half chapters only, so perhaps my views will be more charitable at the end of the journey, but shouldn't a book like this be accessible and clear right from the start?

I have built a small application -- the walk-through example -- and I have no idea what I did. This is an exaggeration, but I wish to make the point that this exercise seems without much objective. Oh, I have become used to clicking a few buttons, but I have hardly any schema or model in my head of how the objects and properties fit together.

Sorry Gary and Dave -- you clearly have a lot of fans. But I'm not signing up just yet.

I should be keen to receive recommendations from programmers for other books which do the same as this book purports to. (Perhaps something a teensy-bit more analytic?)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still my favorite general VB book, January 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Core Visual Basic 5 (Core Series) (Paperback)

Even though I'm now using VB6 & I've bought several of the newer books, I still think this is overall the best general book on VB available.

My main complaint has nothing to do with the book itself, but rather with the marketingspeak on it which states that it's for "experienced programmers." In practice, that statement has probably done more harm then good, since advanced programmers will be disappointed by the more basic areas of the book.

This is the ideal book for anyone who is either an experienced programmer new to VB or an intermediate VB programmer struggling with some of the more advanced topics.

Advanced users will also get much out of the book, but know ahead of time that the first 150-200 pages are made up of a conscise but basic introduction that you'll want to skip over (though you'll probably find it a useful reference from time to time).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overall an Excellent Book, January 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Core Visual Basic 5 (Core Series) (Paperback)

I have read somewhere around 15 books on Visual basic and this would have to be within the top 5. It covers many techniques and features that I have not seen anywhere else. I would highly recommend this book for someone that is either experienced or has read a lot of books on VB and has a good grasp of all of the concepts. I would not recommend this book for beginners.