Rating:  - Terrible cookbook
I did'nt find anything worthwile. I develop for an enterprise wide application and this book was of no help. Everything in the book is either known by most developers or you can find it online for free without buying the book.
Therefore my advice is DONT BOTHER TO GET THE BOOK.
Rating:  - Great Format, Great Content!
Finally, a book with one-stop shopping for VB.NET! I've read several cookbook-style programming titles in the past, and I was pleasantly surprised to find this has much more depth than I expected. It can't cover everything (.NET is huge), but every time I pick the book up I learn something new. There are so many highlights--just browse through the table of contents and you'll see what I mean!
Here are some of my favorites:
* Send keystrokes to another app
* Create a thread-safe control wrapper
* Great data-binding tips (image-to-picture box, etc.)
* Factory, Registry, Singleton, Memento, and Lazy Initialization patterns
* POP3, FTP, and Ping classes in the networking section
* How to change a password into a salted hash for storage in a database
* Use ZIP and PDF files (disclaimer: some third-party code is required, although it's free)
* Manage print jobs that are underway
* Get Windows accounts and roles
* Do hit testing with custom graphics
* Defend against SQL injection
* Dynamically generate an ASP.NET graphic
* Add ASP.NET controls on the fly
* MAPI and MCI (unfortunately, just through the ActiveX controls)
* Upload binary data with a web service
* Use a web service in VB 6
Rating:  - Visual Basic .Net Programmers Cookbook
As .Net matures, I expected this "cookbook" to measure up to the Culinary Institute of America's cookbook or at least to equal Julia Child's "Mastering the art of French Cooking". Instead, this book is more like a text for Betty Crocker's
home-ec course - Cooking 101. I could not find a single 'recipie' not previously published in the many books that MacDonald Credits. My advice to a would-be author, keep MacDonald's format, it's very good, but climb above the basics and give us some real-world (application level) receipes.
Rating: - The book that every .NET Developer should have
This is a very nice book because it gives you what you need especially when your an advanced user.
Rating: - Great Reference!
Not a book to read from start to finish - although a real geek could. Great examples that work. If you want to know how to do something, this book will tell you and give you an example. I sat down with it and got answers to problems that hours of searches on MSDN and VB.NET sites didn't give me. I wish that I had had this book 6 months ago!!!
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