Customer Reviews

Microsoft Visual Basic: Developer's Workshop

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This book has MANY provocative examples of things that can be done with VB6. The examples are non-trival and not necessarily to be comprehended in one sitting (by me at least). This is definitely a book to work with while learnng to use VB6 and its many features (like the Microsoft msscript.ocx control (p. 506) which has really grabbed my attention). I give the authors high marks for producing this book.

This book is obviously not for beginners - it already said in the introduction . And it's not written in any order. It's a good idea to just jump around the book and read the sections you 're intersted in - Most chapters discuss a new area and not related to the previous one.

This book is well explained - I personally like the User Assisstance , most book doesn't cover on this . Overall , this book will not teach you basic concepts but to enhanced your skills.

I can't say it's a bad book but it wasn't for me. If you are relatively new to Visual Basic or you want to know what version 6 can do, take a look to this book.

Beside that, look for more specific books like those from Wrox on VB6

This book is just too cute for words "Dear John - How do I ..." I was looking for something that explains vb6 - Not one word about the Data Environment or report writer. Too little book (at 790 pages yet!) for too much money.

Although the book wasn't all I was looking for, it gave me more than I originally expected. I bought this book because I was tired of skimming through 10 different VB web sites looking for a quick and dirty answer to a question - and SAMPLE CODE. :)

This book met my expectations very well, it answered more than half of the questions I had...and had answers to some questions I hadn't yet thought of asking. Although it doesn't hit many of the real advanced topics I was really hoping for (i.e., calling/using C DLLs...besides just knowing you can do it), I am more than happy with it -- and recommend it to other non-VB gurus. :)

I got this book about 2 years a go when I was starting on VB. It helped a lot on my learning. This is a cook book or "How to..." book that teaches you how to do many usual things so it's very useful when you are a beginner so you don't have to figure out how to do this things and It save you many time. Once you get in practice probably you won't need it any more.

I would agree with some of the other reviews, ie., that a lot of what is in this book one could get off of the internet, and that the coverage of VB6 is pretty weak (if you compare this version with the previous version, there is not much difference), however it's a good source for advanced VB Topics and makes for some very good bathroom reading.

This book was pretty decent. It was pretty informative....but it lacks the in depth explanation Visual Basic developer's need but it does go into detail. If you know what you are doing, or have a little experience, id buy this book. I like the way it was setup. It answers many questions that you might have with simple problems....while going into harder problems. I found it neat that it went into depth explanation with Screen Savors. I think that's its best feature >:o) -Wizord

More information about new features in VB6 is available on Microsoft's web site than in this book. None of the new features were explored in any detail, and most of the book describes VB5 features.

All of the information presented in available on the web - the presentation is ad-hoc and does not provide any value for an experienced developer.

It seems that the authors do not have any applications development experience.