Rating:  - Another solid title from Francesco Balena
I have been using Francesco Balena's "Programming Visual Basic 6.0" (also by MS Press) for several years. That book is clearly written in an understandable way and flows well.
Like its predesessor, Programming Visual Basic .NET is clearly written, flows in a logical order and most importantly makes sense!
The book is well edited (has very few mistakes/typos) and comes with this book as well as Francesco's VB 6.0 book on the companion CD (as well as all the example code).
I also like that this book doesn't try to build a "super app" chapter by chapter as so many books do. In those books, if you want to just read up on a particular topic, you've got to aquaint yourself with everything the author has done up to that point just to understand what you were looking for in the first place. With this book, you can open up to any chapter and not have to have built some application that started 20 chapters back to get it!
Rating: - Excellent Book
This book is excellent for the VB6 programmer making the transition to VB.Net. There are a large number of examples, and the explanations are very in-depth. I haven't found a book yet that compares to this one in quality or quantity of content.
Rating: - Great
If I had to have only one VB.NET book, this would be it. Certainly, it is not the only one on my shelf, but it would do well on a deserted island (where a social life doesn't matter). It covers a wide range of topic areas and covers them well. It is not terse, but it still can be easy to gloss over important items. Big and heavy, but opens flat so that it is easy to place in front of your monitor as you read along and try out the topics. Excellent.
Edit: now that I have gone through another dozen or so VB.NET books, this is the ONE book that I would keep on a deserted island.
Rating: - Excellent
This is best book, if you have experience in programming some language ( I am a Java Programmer) and wants to jump in to .NET using Visual Basic. This book specifically targeted for hardcore programmer.. and not beginners
Rating: - By far the best VB.NET reference for experienced programmers
A very thorough and well written VB.NET reference, with just enough code examples. If only there were a C# edition of this book. Since purchasing it I've begun to do more C# than VB, yet I still refer back to this book more than any other .NET reference.
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