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5 comments about Active Visual Basic 5.0 (Microsoft Programming Series).

1. This book is a must for people that want TONS of code examples, learn how to build ASP pages, and more..But the biggest feature, you will learn how to make your own ACTIVEX Controls! I would recommend this book, for anyone who wants to have the apps support the intellimouse (Source with code included) and other neat stuff. The code projects are WONDERFUL. Also comes with Visual Basic Control Creation Edition! Also comes with a whole bunch of other neat programs that allow you to make ActiveX stuff, like ActiveX SDK, and lots of other stuff...But I would get this book if you have the money! Its a good reference, and a fun book to read through. Have Fun!



2. The Eddon boys clearly define the essence of VB development. You can literally pick this book up and read it from cover to cover or reference specific topics for review. The Eddons' provide a clear discussion of Microsoft's ActiveX approach as it relates to VB and VB related Web development (ASP, VBScript, and IIS). This book is not bogged down in endless code examples that have little significance to development efforts. It is a verbose descriptive book emphasizing theory and comprehension, sprinkled with precise examples that are easily understood and duplicated. Hands down this is the best book I have found on VB ActiveX and the Web.



3. This is an excellent presentation of using Visual Basic for ActiveX Components and Controls.



4. There were some mistakes in the exercises of this book, nevertheless, they were pretty straight forward and simple to understand. I enjoyed reading the book for its simple methods in teaching the advance features of VB such as COM and ActiveX, and I also like the many examples and exercises in the book to keep the readers follow along and to get their hands dirty with coding. It is easy to read and at the same time, very informative.



5. Despite some errors in the exercises of the books, the materials covered were presented in a easy to learn and and no nonesense fashion. The book also covered Winsock and Internet controls, tips on using ASP server objects for which I find very useful to read on.

5 comments about Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 4 in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself).

1. This is a good book provided you've used "Teach yourself Visual Basic in 21 days" by Ori & Nathan Gurewich. But, there are too many errors in the book. I suspect microsoft made some changes that the authors did not incorporate. For example Dim dyn1 as Dynaset will not work. Dynaset has been replaced with RecordSet. But I couldn't get the Filter command to work with RecordSet and I couldn't use the dynaset set that the authors have in the book. Overall it's a good book for reading but useless to practice the programs with - that's why I rate it a 7. PS, on day 4 use Biblio.mdb instead of Books.mdb. There is no books file. Good Luck Kimberly Brugier



2. This book does a very good job of teaching a new or experienced user. As an experienced programer, this book help me to refine many of my skills. I recomend this book to anyone who wants to learn VB



3. This book is outdated. Not because of Visual Basic 5.0 but because of changes Microsoft must have made to Visual Basic 4.0 after this book was published. This may not be the authors fault, but it makes the book very frustrating to follow. A lot of the code samples in the book don't work.



4. This is a very good book, much better than the usual example. I read it through before trying anything out on the computer, and was able to follow pretty much everything.

   When I went to the computer, I ran into the errors other reviewers have noted. But they were pretty obvious. And I don't think this book contains more than other computer manuals. Proofreading standards in general are awful throughout the printing trades [I'm a former typographer], and the usual poor organization and lack of clarity of writing in computer manuals compound the problem.

   But given all that, I got a lot out of the book. Most important, I haven't found anything else that covers this material that comes even close to it.




5. Most books talking about database programming with Visual Basic give only cursory treatment to programming using the ODBC API. They rely, instead on using the "preferred" methods of ADO, RDO, and DAO. However, when your dealing with an ODBC driver that only supports level 1 functionality, you can run into trouble using those technologies (as I did). Then, you are left with no alternative but to code directly against the API. I have a stack of database programming books, and this is the only one to give any real coverage to using the API to read and write data from databases (how often do you actually need to query what functions the ODBC Driver supports anyway?). My thanks to the author.

5 comments about Developing Solutions with Office 2000 Components and VBA (Microsoft Technologies Series).

1. I liked this book quite a bit. It covers the material well and the author does a fair, but adequate job of explaining the concepts. All in all it will serve you well.

   This book seems to skip around quite a bit, but there is always a lot of material to cover.

   One of the best books on Office Automation and getting things to work together is Learn Word 2000 VBA Document Automation (author: driza). Another book that some people liked (and some people didn't!) was by Steven Roman on Developing Office Add-ins. Roman's Word macro book is also fair.




2. "Developing Solutions With Office 2000 Components and VBA" is a good book for someone who understands the big picture of the hows and whys of VBA. If you need to be led through a few complete examples or see why you would want to program a certain situation, this book is not for you. Aitken warns you of this in the introduction. For those of us a little slow on the uptake, better find another book with which to start. Come back to this book when you are ready to develop.



3. I had been working with the Office 2000 Suite and needed to create some automation. I was able to successfully link a Word document to an Access database in order to create an automated status report. The book also assisted in the creation of the template (in the Word document) and how to lock cells/data within the Word document to prevent manipulation.

   What I did not like was the slow pace of the book. Two-thirds of each application section (Word, Excel, etc.) was just a rehash of "Office automation 101", information that could be gleaned from working with macros. I think that may be beneficial to someone just beginning work with Office Automation and VBA, however it is not to useful for the intermediate/advanced user.




4. I don't generally complaing about books so much, but this one I feel like burning. It was so skimpy in its coverage of each topic, that I found it pretty much useless. 30 pages about microsoft word - not very much, IMO. I would reommend Michael Kofler's "Definitive Guide to Excel VBA" (Apress) for Excel. Possibly Guy Hard-Davis "Word 2000 Developer's Handbook" (Sybex) for Word. And MS-online help for the other applications, i guess. Others have had better luck with this book it seems, so good luck in your own choice!



5. Let me right away start with a disclaimer. I bought this book even without browsing it through because I have enormous respect for the guy based on his older books such as
   The Peter Norton PC Programmer's Bible-(where he was a coauthor)
   and books on C.
   Those at their times were very useful to me because they were written from field experience.
   
   This one.... seems just a rehash of online help.
   
   I rather read on this subject from someone who has been in trenches in this particular subject, even if they are not decorated veterans. For just Excel VBA for example Walkenbach and Koefler are much more useful.

5 comments about Using Visual Basic for Applications 5 (Using ... (Que)).

1. For VBA, BUT WAIT -- on the CD are the complete books SE:Using ActiveX and SE: Using VBScript, making this sort of a three-for-one. I bought this one and did not even realise it -- I got so used to a lot of the same-old junk on CD! On the companion disk go to the ActiveX folder, activex.htm and you will have their ActiveX Resource Center... which can bring the two other books up on the CD, nice and quick, and also links to Office 97 resources and other stuff. Que books can tend to be a bit too general, but this has a lot of info and is more succinct than most offerings from Que. If you are starting out with scripting hoping to roll your knowledge over to Office Apps someday, then this is the BEST DEAL you will ever get.



2. I have programmed and used Word Basic, but this book left me feeling a little lost. The book was written by several people who appear to assume that some subjects will be covered in a different chapter. Other topics were covered more then once. I was disappointed and am still not able to create a comphresive macro in VBA.



3. This book covers a lot of topics - but lacks in-depth explanation on many important stuffs. I tried to reference the book to help me with some Excel automation. However, the 40 Excel pages in the book helps only a little. Not a single word on 'charts', poor presentation on 'Range', no mention of Excel built-in functions... MS user's guide or online help is much better. The coverage on other parts look just like the Excel.



4. This book is a good starting point before you go out and buy that 2 inch thick book on your individual office component. This book does not go into advanced concepts, it is moreover a guide to Office's object model. I felt that it left many important concepts out. The selection of what was important in Excel was sporadically helpful. I started out with this book, but needed additional references to drill into the specifics. I've *never* accessed data the way they say to in Access, nor would I. There is a discussion section in the back with suggestions on how to use the Office suite to solve problems, but no specifics.



5. This book shows at a very high-level, what you can do with VBA in all of those MS Office applications.

   The only problem with this book is that every piece of information can be gathered from MSDN.

   If you are not sure what VBA is, or how you can use other Microsoft Products in you Visual Basic projects, then get this book. It will be a real eye-opener.

5 comments about Dan Appleman's Developing Activex Components With Visual Basic 5.0: A Guide to the Perplexed.

1. The author's logical, step-by-step description of how ActiveX really works, coupled with abundant sample code, makes this book a winner. Appleman resists the temptation to re-hash the Microsoft documentation, and instead offers a path to understanding ActiveX that is lucid and interesting. His writing style makes this complex technology understandable for all levels of VB programmers. The sample code offered on the accompanying CD is an education unto itself. It is very informative to see how the heavy-hitters write VB code, and Appleman doesn't disappoint. I learned to approach my own programming a little differently by going over his code.



2. If you have a handle on VB and just want to know how to create ActiveX controls that can be implemented with ASP, this book is definitely not for you.

   I wanted a step by step process and I didn't get it.




3. I liked the book. It clearly explains what MS manuals should have explained. I liked the Stock Ticker as an ActiveX Exe example. My only problem with the book is that it rehashed a lot of material that I already knew. For some reason, I thought there was more to the ActiveX components. But I guess there isn't.



4. Somehow Dan Appleman has managed to explain COM in a clear, consice way that doesn't require you to read it over and over again in order to understand it. After reading this you will have a thorough grounding which will enable you to develop ActiveX controls, but more importantly you will find yourself designing you applications in a more structured, efficient way.



5. Good presentation of complex topic. Good source for reference