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Visual Basic .NET Bible

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I guess that I am the exception here, since everyone else seems to love this book. I thought that the book was not very well put together. Let me give you some concrete examples:

First, I think that it has already been said that this book does not have enough OOP. That is probably true. I have been doing OOP for so long that I didn't miss the omission, but it might be a little frustrating for a novice.

There are also a lot of little things that I noticed. Much of the book seems to be a reprinting of the .NET SDK documentation. Another thing that bothered me quite a bit is that in their tables that list the methods of classes, they didn't list the return values of the methods. This may seem like a little thing, but it meant that I had to go look everything up in the SDK anyway, so after a while I ditched the book and just used the SDK.

Another thing that I noticed was some incorrect terminology. As an example, Mr. Beres refers to the System.IO.Directory class as a "static" class. I knew what he meant, because I am also a Java programmer, but that terminology is not used in VB.NET. That could be very confusing because there is no such thing as a static class in VB.NET. VB used to support static methods, but static in this sense meant something completely different than what Mr. Beres is trying to express. I believe that he meant that the class consists only of Shared methods, not that it is a static class.

Again, I don't mean to nitpick here, because there were some good things, too. I have also written books for a competing publisher, so I know how hard it is to get everything just right (trust me folks, its not as easy as it looks!), and the authors have done an admirable job. It's just that better attention to detail as well as more consideration of the audience could have made this book so much better.

It is really a well written book. The authors are really good programmers. Good treatment is given as for as the GUI and .NET framework is concerened. Surprisingly not much about OOP itself. For example the most important form of inheritance, namely the interface inheritance is not at all discussed! If you read this book along with cornell's apress book (which is excellent for OOP but lacks GUI treatment)then you will get the complete picture.

I got this book several days ago. At the first look book is very good. There is a big difference between VB6 and VB .NET and this book will show you more than you will find in any other book written for VB .NET so far. 1240 pages, 50 chapters, source code at companion web site. I have seen MOC 2373 Object Oriented Programming using Visual Basic .NET and some other books. This book will help me (probably you too) to learn new product and hopefully pass future MCSD certification exams.

After reading VB.Net by Fransesco Balena, this one was its poor cousin. If anyone were to get into the ADO.Net chapter, that persons database access knowledge is bound to get scarred for life. Majority of the samples dont work. take a rain check.

I thought the book was well written and very informative. Yes, I agree that it lacks a complete OO discussion, but if you want that get an OOP book. Besides that I think they cover both the language and the IDE very well, with good examples and good discussion.

Additionaly the book makes a great reference to the language and IDE after your done reading it completely.

I was first amazed at the size of this book. It is large, 1240 pages and not only covers vb.net ... but everything you want to use vb.net for (ASP.NET, Windows forms, webservices, etc). If you want to be a .net developer who uses vb.net, then get this book. As someone said earlier, it also makes a awesome desk reference.

I like how this book has attained a good balance of being a tutorial and reference book. It has many great examples and does a great job of explaining how to better understand how to develop in .NET!!!

COMPLETE COVERAGE OF VB.NET, FROM BASICS TO ADVANCED. GOOD MUST HAVE FOR YOUR .NET COLLECTION, IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU STUDY THIS BOOK WITH WROX VB.NET BOOKS. THIS BOOKS IS A MASTERPIECE.

Awesome [...] book for all , The quality content and the mater coverage is excellent and good book , 5 stars for this book

Starts from the Basic Diff between VB and VB.Net , and goes up to the advanced concepts. I have read a few chapters so far , and the author takes it in a easy pace , a good reference for a serious developer and a good introduction for a novice.
Good work