Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9780672320897 ISBN: 0672320894 Label: Sams Manufacturer: Sams Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 312 Publication Date: August 30, 2001 Publisher: Sams Sales Rank: 329233 Studio: Sams
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Product Description
This book will smooth the transition to Visual Basic.NET and help developers understand the paradigm shift presented by the .NET Framework. Key differences between VB 6 and VB.NET will be highlighted in the code samples.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Not enough detail and too much repetition
I stopped reading not even half way through. The author gives an overview for the chapter that explains quite a bit about each topic. Then, when the topic is revisited, basically states the same as was covered in the overview. As a result, the book could have been a lot shorter without the redundancy makig it even more expensive per page of real content than other reviewers have noted.
Rating: - Thrown together.
I used this book as a preparation for the Beta exam. It was pretty useless. It has many typographical and code errors such that it looks like it was thrown together at short notice. With at least one chapter, the technical content very questionable. Very much a rush job in my opinion.
Rating: - How Technical Books Should Be Written
The trouble with most books on technologies like .NET is they try to be all things to all people, and end up being either too shallow or far too long.
This book is a very welcome exception. This is how technical books should be written: no messing about, no unnecessary repetition, but all the material is covered clearly in about 250 pages. A very clear target audience (experienced VB6 developers), and clear objectives help - the book's intention is clearly to communicate the essentials, ... Read More
Rating: - Inadequate and misleading
I have been prograaming VB for nine years now and consider myself to be intermediate to advanced. This book simply does not cover the new VB.net in sufficient details. New methods and properties are not explained whilst dealing with other new methods or properties. A good exmaple is the string class. This is not explained, just used, when giving a code example. Also, the examples are incorrect, in many places. I went to the website ... and they hadn't even bothered to correct the code there. I'm ... Read More
Rating: - The title is misleading
I am an intermediate VB programmer. I was a little frustrated reading this book. The book didn't cover much and the explanations were not very clear. I also thought the author did not use a common sense approach of explaining complex ideas by using simple examples. He went the other way.
- Not enough detail and too much repetition
- How Technical Books Should Be Written
- Inadequate and misleading
- The title is misleading
