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VB and VBA in a Nutshell: The Languages
by Paul Lomax
List Price: $29.95
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ISBN: 1565923588
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (October, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 13,587
Average Customer Rating: 4.68 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
VB/VBA *not* Object Model
This is an excellent reference on the VB/VBA Language 6.0. For every function, statement, and keyword in the base language, there is a one-page-or-so explanation; most importantly, this book includes the inevitable "gotchas" in programming in a Microsoft environment. This book is the ideal replacement for the MS online help, which, in my experience, has *never* told me anything I didn't already figure out, and *always* fails to describe the behavior that causes the problem that made me look for help in the first place. The one trick I failed to find immediately in this book was the need to use "Is" to compare an object reference to "Nothing." (It's in the book, just not where I first looked.)That said, one warning: this does not describe the object model of any application. If you want to understand why Excel's Range object is not behaving the way you expect, this book says nothing. There are other thick books to describe that.
Rating: 4 out of 5
One of the most perfect books published
First off, this book is EXCELLENT. I'd say this is probably the best computer book I have ever seen and used.My complaint is that O'Reilly is now producing the book without RepKover, which is (I think) that "unglued" portion of the outer binding that allows the book to lay perfectly and effortlessly flat on a desk. The _great_ aspect of RepKover is that I can lay the book right in front of me without having to "hold it down" with my arms while I read from it while typing. I got my book in 1999, when they used RepKover. Today, they (sadly) don't use RepKover for this anymore. So I'd say the 1999 book is the most perfectly produced computer book I have ever seen. (Yes...I do mean that). Everything about it exceeds all expectations. But the 2002 book, because it doesn't have the best binding, brings it down a notch. Somebody mentioned that this is a VB book but not VBA. That is simply not true. It is both a VB and VBA book. The focus is on the language, not on respective application objects. (Read the title: VB and VBA in a Nutshell The Language) I am a VBA programmer and I use this book all of the time.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Maybe VB but not VBA
For the basics of programming in VB this may well be a good book but if you're an experienced programmer and want to dive in at the deep end and program in VBA for Excel, Word etc then this book won't help you much. Better to buy Walkenbach, Green or Kofler. For a terse, precise clarification of language syntax it gets top marks.
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