Customer Reviews

Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Express Edition

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This book was very helpful. I was able to quickly learn and program classes, file streams, collections and graphics. The chapters on database programming were not as helpful as I was not able to get a database up and running. All in all, I'm very happy with the book. I'm a casual programmer and I used a pre-dot-NET version of Visual Basic, so I needed a book that I could read in bits and pieces to quickly get up to speed on object oriented programming and dot-NET. I had a difficult time catching on using Microsoft's impossible help facility and the training materials that Microsoft put out.

Very few instructions on startup and no mention of how to find, install, or use sample data. There is some good content but find myself stuck since it does not explain the startup process very well. I would not recommend for beginners. Maybe use this book as a reference after you learn SQL Server 2005 Express.

I've enjoyed reading this book as it is aimed at beginner to intermediate programmers with details that will instill in a person's mind. The topics are well covered without boring the reader, and a lot of interesting and important topics are well discussed. Highly recommended and looking forward to the 2008 version using VStudio.