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Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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This book was chosen by my Professor just before the start of class. Due to the fact that this is authored by a TEAM of writers, the verbiage tends to read like stereo instructions. There is a lot of nonsense before they get to the point. It would be an excellent book as reading material for those already working with .NET applications since every reference to code is preceded and followed and interrupted by how the .NET framework and VB USED to do things.

As a beginning programmer I found it verbose, boring and far too in "yesterday" in theory & practice. They tout the ability to download the example code from the website and yet neglect to advise that if you do not have access to SQL SERVER you will have a devil of a time inserting their procedures into your project since their code files are compilation.

If I were an experienced programmer in previous versions of VB and .NET, I would probably find this a great read to update my skills and understand the current syntax and logic of these languages.

I just got this book a week ago it is as another reviewer put it a great read if you have worked with Visual Basic before extensively.

Most chapters provide a nice detail on how the functionality has changed from previous versions.

In general I found a nice balance between simple examples and important details, but some of the chapters feel like they were going to bury you under one seemingly pointless nuanced exception to the previous example after another.

Some chapters omit information on why you would select one approach over another. (One of the reasons why we buy books like this as programmers is to get that kind of advice, so the omission is irking when you notice it.)

This isn't an introduction to programming book, if you aren't already a professional programmer I recommend starting with a different book. (That is to say simple concepts aren't focused on to any great extent, and you are assumed to be a programmer in a software production environment.)

On the whole I'm happy I bought this book.

If you've used VB before this book is on par with previous books. If you haven't I can understand how some people would not like it. It shipped very fast and was the cheapest I found it new. I'm pretty impressed overall with the speedy delivery, but feel the book is pretty pointless if you've programmed with VB before.