Rating:  - The best book I have on .NET
This book is the most complete I have found on .NET (I have 4 other books). Beware this isn't a beginners text as Balena outlines very early on. The book is written with experienced VB6 developers in mind. However, it should be usable if coming from other languages as well.
The book is very complete and covers everything from forms to data access, ASP.NET, web services, classes, file access and custom controls. It's also very well organized and reads very easily for a reference book. The index is well organized so it's easy to find what you're looking for. The book makes reference to VB6 a great deal to help those coming from that environment. This book and Balena's VB6 book are included on CD.
Rating:  - Great book but TMI
I love this book (so far, only about 100 pages into it) but the references to VB 4,5 and 6 could've been left out. When I go back to review examples I don't really want to have to scan the entire passage to make sure he's talking about VB.net instead of VB 6 (or 4 or 5 for that matter)- I just want to glance at the subject (and snippet) and move on; Other than this minor annoyance, it's a perfect book.
Rating: - Fantastic Book
This is one of the BEST books on programming that I have read.
The concepts are explained extremely well. I would definitely recommend this book to VB programmers who want to ge a good grasp and eventually master .net technology and VB.net specifically.
Rating: - Fantastic Boo,
This is one of the BEST books on programming that I have read.
The concepts are explained extremely well. I would definitely recommend this book to VB programmers who want to get a good grasp and eventually master .net technology and VB.net specifically.
Rating: - Best Visual Basic .NET book so far ...
Let me just say that I have tons of Visual Basic .NET books which include my previous beloved Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (what a mouth full) that also author by Mr. Francesco Balena together with Jeffrey Richter.
Well, I don't know why I waited so long before getting Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET by Francesco Balena. It has something to do with the fact that I already have a copy of the Framework programming book, or so I thought.
Let's just say after reading countless books on the framework and the .NET idioms etc I still find the concepts somewhat elusive, until one day I accidentally flipped throught this book and it instantly made all the concepts clear to me. I put this book in the same category as Mr. Ted Pattison's outstanding Programming Distributed Applications with COM+ and Visual Basic 6.0 book.
I got to go study now, but will write some more after I'm through with it.
Thanks Mr Balena, and keep playing that Jazz saxophone. By the way, I am a Jazz guitarist as well.
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