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Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide
by Andrew Troelsen
List Price: $59.95
Our Price: $41.97
ISBN: 1893115267
Publisher: APress (15 November, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 55,574
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Key practical resource for the hard-core VB developer
If you are tired of worthless first-peek .NET books, this is the one to buy. I found the content to be excellent and the format good for picking and choosing what I needed. I particularly like Mr. Troelsen's approach of doing code by hand first before going through the VS.NET wizards. Some of the single-chapter intros to .NET technologies were better than entire books I've read on the subject (quite a feat!). This is a great practical companion to Dan Appleman's "Moving to VB.NET" which does a great job providing the theory behind .NET in general and VB.NET specifically. Let's hope Mr. Troelson writes some follow-up books on the subjects he dealt with in one chapter in this book (may I suggest GDI+).
Rating: 5 out of 5
Another 5 star by Andrew Troelsen and Apress
I had received a copy of Andrew's C# book in one of his classes earlier this year, and had to get this book as soon as it came out. I loved this book too. I've been reading technical books for a long time and each time I pick up a Andrew Troelsen book I never regret it. With this new book, Andrew has delivered another winner. This book is a must have for any developer looking to make the jump to VB.NET. There is a ton of code packed into this 900+ page book. I would certainly recommend this to any VB developer looking to move to VB.NET. It is an easy-read and Andrew is really a gifted author. Thanks Andrew!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Great OO coverage but is missing some critical topics
Overall, I think the book does a very good job helping those who come from the non-OO background (especially VB 6) into understanding the OO facets of VB.NET. I think that is where this book is the most solid. The first seven chapters or so you'll think it's a 4-5 star book, however it falls off after that. My reasoning for this is that coverage on debugging and deploying .NET applications is basically non-existent. Although the coverage on tracing was a little better, it could have been stronger and far from made up for the missing coverage of former items. Also, the ADO.NET coverage was waaaaaaaaaay too brief. For such a critical part of what MOST developers are will be using for the systems they develop (unless of course you're a game developer), I thought it was pretty bad to only have a pretty short chapter on a technology that is so critical and has been totally revamped. One could say that you should consult other books for that coverage, but I disagree because these items are critical to any VB.NET application. If that was the case, they could have just cut out almost half of this book. If you've taken any of the good practice tests, you how important MSFT thinks the stuff this book is missing is. A better overall book is the core reference, but I still give this one three stars because the coverage for the first 7-8 chapters if very good.
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