No comments about Programming in Visual Basic: Version 5.0 (McGraw-Hill International Editions).

3 comments about VBA Professional Projects.

1. I regret buying this book. It is poorly organized and poorly written. I had to wade through fractured English, repetitive points, and illogically ordered topics to try to get the information I needed. After a couple of hours, I gave up and ordered a different book.



2. This tome is very poorly written. I suspect English is not the authors' first language. Of the four projects demonstrated, only the first uses VBA. The other three are built with VB.Net. Premier Press continues to be a book publisher to avoid.



3. The book is very informative and covers all the aspects of VBA programming. It also gives a brief and intro to VB.net which is something I really liked. There are 4 projects in the book, which also gives you a hands-on the concepts taught in the book.
   I have done all the projects covered in the book myself and they seem to be very real-life applications.

No comments about Visual Basic for Windows Versão 3.0 - Guia Autorizado Microsoft.

No comments about Microsoft Word 97 Visual Reference Basics.

5 comments about MCSD: Visual Basic 6 Desktop Applications Study Guide.

1. I took the VB6 Desktop exam yesterday and passed with a score of over 900. I aportion about 20% of this success to this book.

   Together with lack of detailed information, there were far too many errors in the book. For example: False information is given about Unattended Execution, the Call Stack, and the Stop statement! There are even some cases where text has obviously been copied directly from Sybex's VB5 study guide: Page 473 has a reference to using VB5.exe to start the development environment!

   I found that I had to use other resources to gain more information about VCM, P&D Wizard, The Project Properties and Options dialog boxes, the Data Bindings collection, Callback functions, and Ambient and Extender properties.

   In summary, the book was good for providing a foundation from which to study from, but only at a basic level. The information had to be "fleshed out" with references to MSDN and of course Transcender.

   Good luck in the exam!

   Footnote: The chapter on ActiveX Controls was good though!




2. The cover of this book says "Everything You need to Prepare for - and Pass - Exam 70-176". It doesn't come close ! The book contains a large number of errors, but its worst failing is that it is far too simple. I got halfway through the book and in my frustration decided to check what else was on offer through Amazon. It wasn't a great surprise to see all the other poor reviews of this book, but I also fortunately read many recommendations for the New Riders book for VB 6. I bought it and can wholeheartedly recommend it (it covers both 70-175 and 70-176).



3. This book is OK for reading and learning the basics. The depth of Exam objectives cover by this book isn't enough. VSS is almost forgotten in this book. P&D was too far simplistic never got into the real exam questions scenarios. Use this one as a starter practice with transcender to get 20% more knowledge. The key to this exam is experience, actual programming scenarios. If you are new to VB, it might take you a while to get certified.



4. I am now Certified with a score 857/1000. I found this book very good in debugging,Classes, ActiveX, and Databases and ADO. To be certified you must read from MSDN and read the Books that accompany the training course in VB -if you have it-. Some exam questions came from this book. I printed the Package and deployment wizard,visual component manager and Source safe from the MSDN and read it since the book was weak in covering this aspect. I found one mistake in the book which is corrected here "The recordset object has only the find method it doesnt have findfirst,findnext ....".

   I wish this was the first book i read when i started learning VB. lastly ....... Michael Mckelvy thanQ very much.




5. Please don't buy this book!... The author seems to have forgotten that he is writing a book to prepare the readers for the exams. The book covers the basics of Visual Basic and the questions that are provided don't even come close to the real exam. The book's contents are misleading -- the reader will think that the author will have covered the topic in depth. However, the author will just give you the basics of it. Furthermore, the main areas such as Package and Deployment and Visual Source Safe are barely covered.

   I used "MCSD in a nutshell" book from O'Reilly publications along with Transcender exams to clear the test.

1 comments about Visual Basic 4 Expert Solutions/Book and Cd-Rom.

1. This book was one of the first on VB4, and was probably based largely on beta versions. A good book for beginning to intermediate VB programmers, it provides limited coverage of VB4's new object oriented features and client/server capabilities. The book does not cover any features specific to the Enterprise Edition (RDO, Remote OLE Automation, Visual Source Safe).

No comments about Visual Basic 6.0 - Edicion Profesional En Un.

No comments about Microsoft Windows 98 : Visual Reference Basics (Learning Series).

No comments about Concise Visual Basic 6.0 Course: Visual Basic for Beginners.

3 comments about Visual Basic Developer's Guide to UML and Design Patterns.

1. This is an ok overview of UML (the Cliff Notes approach) and design patterns. I picked up this book because I hoped to learn more about design patterns and how they relate to Visual Basic. Most of the books, so far, have been based on the C/C++ world. The first section on UML covers the basic aspects with only simple detail. The design patterns take up the rest of the book, but the same minimalist approach is used. The code samples in the book are only partial and don't really give you a good idea of how or when to use this type of pattern. The text is clear, and if you only need an overview; if you have been chosen by your project manager to give a presentation to 25 people on design patterns and Visual Basic and it will only last two hours, this book is the one to buy. If you actually want to use patterns, choose Microsoft's Visual Basic Design Pattersn by William Stamatakis.



2. Although this book present some useful knowledge of UML
   and Design Pattern (nothing novel though), I am sure the authors
   did not spend much time on it. I downloaded the code example
   from their web site, most of them are half way done. I do
   not mind that a book only print some important part of their
   sample, until I found that is all they have. Code sample
   is an important part in such a topic+explaination+sample type
   book. Anyway besides the code, what else is their own
   contribution?
   I would recommend Fowler's UML Distilled to learn UML and GoF book for Design Pattern. There is not much special about implementing them in VB, especially in VB.net.
   A request to the author: please do not write a new edition
   in VB.net. If you are too busy to write a book, let the people
   who have the time to do the work.



3. This is the best book I've found on design patterns in VB. Examples are brief and to the point.
   I personally found information about the use of patterns and the relationship between them very useful.
   Being a lecturer, I've recommended it to all my students and colleagues.