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Visual Basic .NET Unleashed

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you have to be kidding me. how do you have a book called "unleashed" and then not even go into any database usage? i dont think i have ever had to write an application that did not include some type of database usage, yet the author does not even cover it. nor does he go into forms in any detail except when it comes to web forms. where are the 2 pages it would have taken to detail how to populate a listBox? i bought this book off a sidewalk vendor for half price and i got ripped off.

The Title says "Visual Basic .Net Unleashed"... what a title? if you want to learn Visual Basic .Net, don't buy this book. Can we use definitions in writing programs? I don't think so. I bought this book because of its title but when i started reading it, its only full of definitions, less examples.

Visual Basic.NET Unleashed by computer expert Paul Kimmel is a complete, "user friendly", very highly recommended instructional and reference book on the fundamentals of programming with a fully object-oriented language filled with new idioms and capabilities. In addition to the fundamentals, Visual Basic.NET Unleashed covers: free threading and multithreading; inheritance; virtual methods and shared methods; structured exception handling; event handling; encapsulation at the namespace level; Web Services; and NET Framework compatibility. User Level: Beginning-Intermediate, 850 pages.

This is a good book for covering the actual language of vb.net (classes, delegates etc). There isn't much content on creating win or web forms or ado.net for that matter. You will need a separate book if you want to learn these techniques.

Paul seemed to have a wealth of information, but I didn't care for the presentation of the material. I expected much more raw information and less pushing of personal standards choices (the hungarian/non-hungarian argument will never be settled and should be left to the newsgroups). He seemed to "talk down" to the readers.

As an experienced VB6 programmer feeling the anxiety of being behind the power curve with respect to VB.Net, I wanted to start my new learning journey with a book which I felt had the best chance of speaking to where I am currently, and where I want to be in VB.Net. I looked through the table of contents of several books on VB.Net, and wound up choosing Visual Basic.Net Unleashed by Paul Kimmel. I am glad I did.

I like Paul's writing style, which I believe helps make easy (easier) reading of sometimes complex material. He does an excellent job of communicating the differences between VB 6 and VB.Net, and his explanations of the differences have helped me understand the concepts presented.

You can tell from his writing that he is extremely competent in his field, and well read in software development issues, not just in VB.Net issues. In his explanations of code and concepts, for example, Paul recommends programming techniques which may be different than what you have "always done". He discusses these as "best practices" and gives compelling reasons why they should be adopted. I like the new programming ideas he presents and have already learned a lot of new techniques. Intuitively, I understood that something like "refactoring" had to exist, I just didn't know what it was or how to implement it, but I see its benefits, thanks to Paul's insights and explanations.

I would recommend this book unequivocally to anyone who is like me - feeling the pressure of needing to get into the thick of learning VB.Net as soon as possible, and not wanting to go through the introductory materials associated with some of the books which start by teaching you the foundations of VB programming.

As an experienced VB6 programmer feeling the anxiety of being behind the power curve with respect to VB.Net, I wanted to start my new learning journey with a book which I felt had the best chance of speaking to where I am currently, and where I want to be in VB.Net. I looked through the table of contents of several books on VB.Net, and wound up choosing Visual Basic.Net Unleashed by Paul Kimmel. I am glad I did.

I like Paul's writing style, which I believe helps make easy (easier) reading of sometimes complex material. He does an excellent job of communicating the differences between VB 6 and VB.Net, and his explanations of the differences have helped me understand the concepts presented.

You can tell from his writing that he is extremely competent in his field, and well read in software development issues, not just in VB.Net issues. In his explanations of code and concepts, for example, Paul recommends programming techniques which may be different than what you have "always done". He discusses these as "best practices" and gives compelling reasons why they should be adopted. I like the new programming ideas he presents and have already learned a lot of new techniques. Intuitively, I understood that something like "refactoring" had to exist, I just didn't know what it was or how to implement it, but I see its benefits, thanks to Paul's insights and explanations.

I would recommend this book unequivocally to anyone who is like me - feeling the pressure of needing to get into the thick of learning VB.Net as soon as possible, and not wanting to go through the introductory materials associated with some of the books which start by teaching you the foundations of VB programming.

The authors seems to know what he is talking about and
the code looks good. However the downloadable code for
this book does not carry the code to call any of the scripts
in his book.
A separate script is needed and
needs to be written by the reader to call each script and
basically test if his vb.net scripts are execute and run successfully.

This approach forces hands-on approach but seeing how large
the .net framework is, my money would have been better spent
on another book.

With the effort required by this book, it could end up to be
a waste of time if his code doesn't work in the end.

This must be one of the worst books I have purchased ...

Reading flow of this book is very smooth. covers topics like threading in a very nice way. A difinite recommendation for anyone who want to learn VB.NET completely

In depth coverage of a new programming language that could be overwhelming if it wasn't for Paul's book.