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Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Step by Step
by Michael Halvorson
List Price: $39.99
Our Price: $27.99
ISBN: 0735613745
Publisher: Microsoft Press (23 January, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 3,698
Average Customer Rating: 3.68 out of 5
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Rating: 2 out of 5
Fostering the dangerous illusion of knowledge
As an experienced VB developer seeking to learn VB.NET this was the first book I read. After reading this book I came to the conclusion that VB.NET was not much of a change from VB 6!! Well having since gained greater knowledge I now know that that conclusion was just plain wrong. This book gives people the wrong impression of what VB.NET really is. Most of the examples in this book just review the basics of VB in general and worse, far far worse, this book often uses the old VB 6 coding techniques instead of the new .NET ones where newer techniques exist. But the old techniques are merely allowed in .NET for backward compatibility! Is this a good book for beginners? No, it is too much of an odd hybrid between VB 6 and true VB.NET programming. It does not describe any actual existing language as it *should* be programmed. I will concede that many of the basics it teaches are still valid. However ,they are mixed in with techniques that are obsolete to .NET and a beginner is going to have a hard time sorting this out. I still give it a few stars because it contains some useful information. It's not completly worthless. However there are better books out there on which to spend your time and money. There are many books are there which have a far higher information to page ratio.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Not enough .Net framework
This book basically introduces you the the basic building blocks of VB.Net. One of the good things about the book is at the beginning of each chapter it tells you what changed between vb6 and .net. The book is way too basic, especially the first couple of chapters. And the examples are way too watered down. You won't have the knowledge to build anything beyond simple apps. Also the book barely discuses the .Net framework, so I don't much about how it works.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Absolutely Fantastic!
This book is fabulous - I wish I had purchased it earlier. I have recently returned to school in order to study computer programming as part of an effort to make a career change. The first classes on programming and VB.NET required that we use the HORRIBLE Deitel books (save your money on those). I was not able to take a VB course last quarter and have just started the next class. Our instructor recommended this book as a 'refresher' for what we have already covered and I'm really glad he did! (BTW, he's also dumped the Deitel books because there were so many complaints). Not only have I already brushed up on the skills I've already learned, but the writing is clear, editing is wonderful, and (most important of all) everything makes sense! I'm also learning a lot of new things! I will certainly look for more books by this author - he has a talent for explaining things in an easy to understand manner and yet doesn't talk down to the reader.In response to some of the other reviews - no, this book probably wouldn't be too useful to an experienced programmer but it wasn't meant to be. For someone new to programming, however, I haven't found another book that even comes close to this one - buy it today!
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