Visual Basic 5: Developer's Guide

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Visual Basic 5: Developer's Guide

by Anthony T. Mann
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0672310481
Publisher: SAMS (July, 1997)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 400,762
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5


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Rating: 5 out of 5


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Best to start with
I started to read this book wiyh limit idea and knoledg about VB5. Start using the book at work and togeter with the great tips I got excelent results. Thanks to the book I now more then I use to know in the history. This book is also built in good order which take the system and the windows environment in first part and then VB as integration with it. Many thank Anthony for your excelent book. I am waiting for your next book ( vb 6.0 ) I warmly recomend it for beginers and non beginers developers.

Rating: 2 out of 5


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More of a beginner's survey then developer's guide
Although this book touches on a variety of topics it does only that - touches. There is a great deal of information that is not in this book that I as a developer find necessary. Even the title is misleading. A developer's guide should me a reference of sorts not a text that requires scouring for info. Searching for info on implementing winsock, for example, is frustrating because like many other topics it either can't be easily located via the table of contents/index or has just been avoided. Do not make the mistake of trying to learn how to impliment Crystal reports using this book as a sole source of direction. This may be a good book for decorating the bookshelf, but other than that I cannot even recommend it for beginners due to the spurious method with which the author presents material- A method which can easily leave one confused and frustrated. I was amazed that SAMS could allow themselves to publish such a book given the quality of many of their other books. Save your money for something more worthwhile.

Rating: 2 out of 5


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Skimps on detail
I've only read a few selected chapters, but what I did read did not have enough depth to actually be useful. I can't pass judgement on the book as a whole, but don't bother with it to learn about using VB with databases.

Here's the most egregious example of lack of detail: Chapter 34 deals with Crystal Reports. 25 pages are spent explaining how to use the Crystal gui to build report formats, but there is no text at all about how to invoke a report from VB. Very strange. I mean, isn't launching a report from VB the reason that a VB developer would care...? The author refers you to the application developed in chapter 42, but there is no text there either. It's just bizarre. There are two pieces to the puzzle and the author just leaves you hanging with one of them.


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