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Microsoft Mastering: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Development

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I used this book to prepare the MCSD exam, I found it is better than the MS MCSD Training Kit. However, it doesn't cover Visual Sourcesafe and uses SQL server 6.5 instead of 7.0 as lab materials.

I passed the exam by using this book in addition to other materials.

I thought that this book was very good in providing information on every topic. I especially loved building an application from beginning to end. But if you are purchasing it to pass the 70-176 exam, you will need additional material. For example, combining this with MSDN and Transcender is a pretty good combination. I also purchased New Riders MCSD Training Guide. It provided a lot of detail and was quite helpful as well.

I have sworn by MS Press books for all my certification exams and have to say that this one is by far the most disappointing. I found it to be too superficial to be of much benefit. It works as a decent complement to other resources, but can't really be a primary resource itself.

I have a MCP certification thanks to this book and practice. This book teach you to create components and database application. This book assume you have experience application development with previous version of Visual Basic or have knowledge in Visual Basic. Im instructor of Visual Basic for beeginer and expert and any question about this book or Visual Basic comcepts, please don't waiting to contact me at carchie@prtc.net.

I picked up this book to brush up my VB 6 skills. Just brush up on them... I've been a VB & C++ programmer for over 7 years. After going through about 4 chapters I noticed that the authors couldn't decide on a level a detail in which to talk about their subject. They give you one topic in detail (several pages) then hit on a very closely related topic in 1/2 a page. Then you get to the exercises to practice and find that they are based on that 1/2 page of explaining a topic. And they tell you to "Please Refer to Micrsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Help" FAR too many times!!!! One thing for sure, you'll be an expert at using the Search Engine in MSDN!!! One thing I did like is the inclusion of multimedia files showing the "author" actually performing tasks... Just when you wonder what the heck they're talking about, you remember to look at the CD for a video. But even those are inconsistent. I say, use it if you know VB and need a refresher or are working with someone who knows VB. Otherwise. Microsoft has let me down AGAIN with this book. Look elsewhere.
This book is more about how to use the automated Visual Studio capabilities than it is about teaching VB essentials. If you can't write your SQL by hand, then you should be using MS-Access. The Data Viewer & Environment is nice, but a waste...

I passed the exam by using this book in addition to other materials.

I thought that this book was very good in providing information on every topic. I especially loved building an application from beginning to end. But if you are purchasing it to pass the 70-176 exam, you will need additional material. For example, combining this with MSDN and Transcender is a pretty good combination. I also purchased New Riders MCSD Training Guide. It provided a lot of detail and was quite helpful as well.