Customer Reviews

Mastering Visual Basic 5

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is a good introduction to Visual Basic 5.0. However, this book does not cover RDO and gives a very shallow description on DAO. I had to resort to help window on VB to learn about database programming.

After complaining to the editors about the numerous coding and syntax errors and having a CD with blank data, I finally had to return the book for a full refund. Please be forewarned that this book will NOT give you a mastery unless you have the patience to weed through numerous inconsistencies....

I'm experienced programmer, I've been programming in Turbo Pascal for DOS before I started programming in Visual Basic 5. As technology moves fast, Windows completely replaced DOS, so I decided to start learning Windows programming. I bought Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition and Mastering Visual Basic 5.0 book by Evangelos Petroutsos which is just what i need ! It covers Visual Basic 5.0 deeply from forms (windows) to Active-X controls, Graphics, Windows API (Application Programming Interface functions which let you take control of other windows based applications and many other features) and even Internet Programming with Visual Basic 5.0 !!! After reading this book, you will be able to create programs which will go far way beyond visual basic environment, applications which will take control of other windows based applications. This book includes everything you need to know to start and MASTER your Visual Basic 5 Professional Programming and get the most out of Visual Basic 5. I want to thank Evangelos Petroutsos for his great work writing Mastering Visual Basic 5 book which is a MUST-HAVE book for programmers who have some experience in programming, and now want to jump into and MASTER Visual Basic 5. It doesn't matter what your programming language you're programming in right now or programmed before is in order to read this book, wheather its DOS or Windows based, what matters is that you need some kind of understanding of basics of programming and programming experience in order to read this book and find it useful. This book is for experienced programmers who want to learn and MASTER Visual Basic 5 and its latest features, not to START PROGRAMMING using Visual Basic 5. - Dmitriy Gerasimiov.

This book is a good one for almost any VB Programmer. Its appear chapters in an organized fashion with lots of small groups of chapters that all focus on one important concept. Its index makes it easy to find what your looking for and the appendix is a great resource for little details you don't often need, and as a result they are often forgotten by the time they are needed, but this book makes them easy to relearn. I gave this book a five stars for being a good, technical resource as well as for its content.

I actually used this book to learn VB6. What happened to great programming books like this one?

This book was thorough, and started off at the most basic level. After starting off with the equivalent of a Hello World style program and an intro to Forms, the book quickly took off. The book proceeds to cover all of the basic Windows Controls: listboxes, controlboxes, etc. It goes on to cover SQL database programming, painting/graphics functions, Active X Controls (interfacing and creating them), etc.

This book is a 1000 page bible for VB programming. After programming VB for almost 2 years, I still use this book as my first place to turn to. Well organized, and very thorough.

I would recommend buying this book today, even though it is out of print. It would be a bargain to buy used (no, mine is not for sale).

Overall I would have to say this is a good book. If you are a beginner or intermediate VB developer, there are a lot of good examples. I still use the book as a reference once in while. The only problem I have with the book it that the author spent too much time on things you can do graphically with VB. This is something that I think most VB developers will never get involved with.

Overall I would have to say this is a good book. If you are a beginner or intermediate VB developer, there are a lot of good examples. I still use the book as a reference once in while. The only problem I have with the book it that the author spent too much time on things you can do graphically with VB. This is something that I think most VB developers will never get involved with but I could be wrong.

Overall I would have to say this is a good book. If you are a beginner or intermediate VB developer, there are a lot of good examples. I still use the book as a reference once in while. The only problem I have with the book it that the author spent too much time on things you can do graphically with VB. This is something that I think most VB developers will never get involved with but I could be wrong.

Huge amount of missprints in code samples, some code samples contain errors, which cannot be interpreted as missprints.Chapter about variable scope does not have all essential information. Chapter about database is primitive and rudimentary.CD does not contain what was promised. Is not that already enough? I want my money back!!!

I got this book from a freind and its like GOLD. Every problem i get into, i just need to open this book and find the answer easy! Its a MUST for every Visual basic Programmer !!!