Customer Reviews

Visual Basic 5: Superbible Set: Boxed

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3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Its little bit Advance lavel book, but it contain huge refernce. They try to re-presnt like VB dictionary. Its not bad.

I was a little startled to see that some reviewers thought this book worth only 2 stars. After reading their reviews I see that they're punishing the book for being a reference work instead of being an advanced tutorial on whatever subjects they're looking for.

In fact, the front cover declares it to be "The Programmer's Complete Visual Basic Reference". It is in fact a reference work, declares itself to be so and, in my opinion, does an exceptional job of it.

Even though we're using Visual Studio 6 and this book covers only VB 5 I bought copies of this book for my entire development team since I was so impressed with it as a reference. Even though we develop plenty of on-line help ourselves it doesn't lend itself very well to flipping through the pages... and I find that useful even with a reference book.

This book fails to deliver on the goods it promisses. On the back of the book box, it proclaims EXAUSTIVE coverage of everything including database integration, Add-ins, SQL server, ect... . This couldn't be further from the truth, in fact the text doenst go in depth with any of these topics. With over 2,000 pages to read you'd think they would cover some ground wouldn't you? I bought the set on discount and it wasn't even worth that much. A wide variety of topics were only BRIEFLY addressed, do yourself a favor, look for VB books published by WROX, at least they care about what your reading. In the meantime, i have wasted my time and space on my bookshelf because of this text.

Every time I needed to find a specific item I have always found more than enough information to solve the problem.

I bought this book hoping to get good coding techniques for VB5, especially for some of the newer controls in VB. All I got was a rehash of VB's online help.

Get it if you can spare the cash and hate reading the online documentation.

Two volumes, 105 chapters consisting of 2275 pages should have provided more real information.

Volume 1 is only useful as a reference. No real instructional value here. Most of it was done better in VB's online help. In Volume 2 are a couple of pretty good but short chapters on ActiveX, OLE and OOP. There are also three chapters on databases which barely scratch the surface.

You could throw away the first volume and just use the second volume which is almost useful except that the table of contents for both volumes is in volume 1.

I don't recomend it. However, if you hate using online help then this is the book for you.

I have a lot of VB books. This one is fair - but it misses out on some useful items like MSChart and the database section is weak on items like Schema.ini. Some good examples make it worthwhile.