Rating:  - A book to bring you a step above ground zero
This was the first book on VB.NET I purchased for self-study. As a starting point, this gets you started with building a few simple programs to demonstrate what you can do with .NET. It is sort of like a 100 mile wide and 1 inch deep introduction for you to explore all of what you might want to do with VB.NET, including building simple Windows Forms, ASP Web Pages, and data-driven Forms. The Visual Studio (VS.NET) is given a good look over as well, so you should by the end of the book be able to get around in the studio fairly well, build some simple programs, and even create your own install programs.
Don't expect that by the end of the book you will be able to start building complex, object-oriented solutions or even really gain an understanding of Object-oriented programming methods: for that you will need to invest in some other books.
VB.NET is a much larger and much more complex subject that will extend your study beyond the simplistic examples given in this book, but you will find it an enjoyable introduction.
Rating:  - Excelent Book
I don't know any thing about visual basic , I am C/ C++ , PHP
programmer , and this book help me to learn new language to me
VB.NET
So is the Best Choice for Novice programmer with VB..
Rating:  - This book is not a very good book. In fact to me it's scary.
Although for the average novice this book seems like a good one. It is not. It is just encouraging the programming perception of the novice programmer.
It doesn't go into detail of real .NET programming and is really focused on showing off simple things that any novice could have worked out in a few hours.
Visual Basic 6 programmers shouldn't read this book it will make you think VB.NET is the same thing. But in fact it is nothing like VB 6. The author decides to not discuss the what the importance of object oriented programming is.
He also decides to hide some of the most important information of the .NET framework and the Visual Basic.NET language from the novice who wouldn't know anything about .NET or Visual Basic.NET. Nearly everything in this book could be accomplished in Visual Basic 4-6. And everything within it is very easy to learn and the novice programmer would feel like he is repeating himself.
And for all the people who are saying that this is a good book. You are wrong. This book has got nothing to do with .NET! If you expect to be a proffessional after learning this book you are gonna have one bad career if you don't pickup now and get the basics of Object Oriented Programming and the .NET framework into your head. If you look up on any proper coding site you will know that the code in this book is nothing like real life code for real life situations and I can't believe Microsoft published this.
That review comes from 13 year old as well! And believe me I know a some real life developers who have to employ people and have to be irratated by this kind of stuff each and every day.
It's code that teaches people how to not get a job. Or how to make your open source programs not be downloaded.
Rating: - Amazon Customer
This book is listed first when you search for it, but it is an old issue and out of print. Amazon wants 2 weeks to find this old edition for you. Look for a later edition of the same book further down the list. It usually ships in 1 day. Amazon should eliminate this problem by notifying customers that a later edition of a particular book exists.
Rating: - FINALLY SOMEONE EXPLAINS THEIR EXAMPLES
Finally I found a book where they not only lead you through the code but actually explain what the code is doing. Definitely a beginner book, but thats exactly what I needed since I have no VB background. This book gives you the option to type in all the code yourself, or the finished programs are all included on the CD. Thanks for making it possible for me to understand the subject.
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