5 comments about Bug Proofing Visual Basic: A Guide to Error Handling and Prevention.

1. Sorry, I read this book, but didn't think much of it. I was able to pick up a few valuable tidbits, but overall thought the book's title and promise didn't deliver.

   Avoiding bugs, it seems, has much to do with following good programming practices and perhaps that should have been the book's title. Much wasted time is spent on telling us how to indent lines of code, how to line up our comments, and admonitions to fix our own bugs and to be alert when you test.

   There was 20 pages of good stuff and the rest was fluff. It was as if Rod Stephens needed to put out a book fast and just shotgunned his many years of programming experience at us, hoping something would stick and save us from having too many bugs.

   I realize I now own 4 of his books, but none are even in my top 10 Visual Basic books. If I could have read the book first and then paid for it, I would have paid 5 bucks.




2. I found this book to be only for beginners. It is very repetitive about a lot of stuff that you just know if you have programmed for more than a month. Most of the suggestions it makes are pointless or just too obvious, and i can't believe you can write so many pages with so little content. In conclusion, if you have used Visual Basic for more than a month, you must NOT buy this book, it wont help in the littlest bit. Please excuse my English if i've written something wrong.



3. A very reasonable book for someone to refresh the knowledge and fill the gaps about error handling in VB. It does provides the stuff that is missing in the VB help or other VB books. At least it provided some guidance on how to tackle the error handling within a program, instead of a routine only. Photocopy the content page and use it as a quick reference. One little shortcoming is that the author sometimes repeats his message in many places in the book.



4. This book is a must have.

   If you have ever written anything in VB, then you know how much of a pain Error Handling is. This book will give you a solid foundation of how to handle errors. It also gives you lots of insight into handling general error or specific errors, and writing bug-proof code.




5. I was trained in VB at a Fortune 1 company (narrows it down, eh?). I developed a very paranoid mindset with my development that I have not seen in others until I came across this book.

   It really took the beliefs and habits that were instilled in me and materialized them into a book. I can then take this book and recommend it to folks I have to share projects with to spread those beliefs and habits without seeming like a pain.

   If you aren't an enterprise class developer but would like to play one on TV by coding tight apps, get this book. Your team members/users will love you for it!

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1 comments about Visual Basic 6 Coursebook.

1. This book is very useful for a beginner in Visual Basic 6. This is a 950+ page book. The examples and code are easy to follow and topics get interesting after chapter 2. After that you get into topics like Error Handling, File Management, Graphics and Data and ADO controls. Over all the book is good and easy to follow plus it has reviews questions and a lot of labs after every section. The Disk included with the book is also helpful and it contains an electronic test. But the only down size to this book is that it contain a lot of junk. The book is 950+ and at least 100 pages are wasted in the first 2 chapters with the introduction to windows 95 which is not necesary. And it has a very lenthy chapter of definitions and more those definitions are repeated in the beginning of every chapter.

5 comments about Scot Hillier's COM+ Programming with Visual Basic (Sams White Book Series).

1. Scot Hillier's book COM+ VB is destined to be considered a classic among the great big programming books. I wouldn't jerk you around. In fact I can honestly say I love to read Scot's work. Tony Davidson once said "A Smith can be a common man, but does that mean I see a Smith and think: "There before
   heaven go I"? There is absolutely no need to ponder. In fact to ponder this is to get confused. I read and laid down the book again. Soon I'll read more.

   Joanne Brady




2. I started my COM+ learning experience with Peishu Li's "Visual Basic and COM+ Programming by Example" and then used this book to get a more advanced look at COM+. This was NOT money wasted. I highly recommend both books to users wanting the learn about COM+ and n-tier. This book is very well written. Developers with a background in MTS may want to skip the "by Example" book but you definitely want to read this book. Scot Hillier understands COM+ (and MTS for that matter) and his style of writing is pleasant to read.



3. It's a great book to possess, When it comes to Component programming. After Don Box "Essiential COM", this is by far the best COM+ book I have read. It will give you good understanding about not just writing but design and implementing COM+ Components. Examples are great and right to the point.



4. I finished this book over a year ago, and never got around to writing a review. Probably won't help too many with most of the new development moving to .NET, but here goes. Overall, it was solid but I thought it could have done two things better. I thought the coverage on MSMQ could have been stronger and the project at the end did not get tied together as well as it should have. I like the approach of a lot of the Wrox books that really get into detail WHY they're doing something in their projects they use to tie their ideas together. I felt as thought the author really almost rushed this section of the book, and, in doing so, missed the opportunity to really drive home his points. Hopefully he reads these and will take a page out of the Wrox books in really getting down to explaining his reasoning and what is going on when he's tying his ideas together with a project in his next book. I thought he did an outstanding job up to that point though.



5. this is far the best com book I have read. I am happy to be in possession of one

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1 comments about Using Visual Basic (User Friendly Reference).

1. This is a great book for beginners. I purchased it when I was using Visual Basic 4, and sometimes I still use it for Visual Basic 5 and 6. The Author uses excellent examples for coding all of the major controls a beginner needs to master. Without a doubt this is my favorite VB book.