Message from Dean - May 8th 2007

I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.268
EAN: 9780782124699
ISBN: 0782124690
Label: Sybex
Manufacturer: Sybex
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1040
Publication Date: 1999-03
Publisher: Sybex
Studio: Sybex

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
For students or programmers in another language who want to move into Microsoft's graphical Visual Basic programming world, Visual Basic 6 Complete has 1000 pages of coverage of the language's newest 6.0 version! This inexpensive--yet complete--Visual Basic resource includes something for everyone: tutorials, advanced tips and tricks, huge references, and even VBScript and Office 2000 VBA coverage. Chapters range from the basics of the programming environment to internet and interactive Web programming. Comprehensive references include all the Visual Basic 6 commands, functions, classes, and APIs.




Rating: - Good reference
This is a good reference book but if you are looking for details this is not the book.

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Rating: - A Trio Of Good Books
I've been wrestling with trying to review this book, along with two others I purchased as a package recently, and I came to the conclusion that I can't review this book alone, I have to review all three together. I'm reading them all simultaneously, and the similarities and differences, combined together, are making the study of Visual Basic 6.0 an extremely enjoyable experience. The other two are: (1) Visual Basic 6 by Paul Sherrif (2) Step by Step Visual Basic 6.0 by Microsoft Press. Again, I can heartily recommend the combination of all three read at the same time. You will feel as if you are getting Visual Basic training at an accelerated pace, even tho, you will probably lose track of what book covered which topic. So far, at any rate, doing it this way is working out very well for me. Try it.

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Rating: - Completeness traded for Brevity
The book has written on the cover "1,000 pages ONLY $19.99", and it was able to accomplish this because all of the chapters come from other books but that have been editted to be smaller so that they fit. It feels to me like various information was lost in this editting process and the only way to get this missing information is to download the source code and look at that.
Unfortunately, the projects do not seem to open in my version of VB6, and this has made repeating the programs they describe very difficult. I am not certain why the projects won't work, but I suspect that it is because I have upgraded to service pack 6 for VB6 and somewhere along the service pack path, the project files have become obsolete. So if you purchase this book, that is something you will want to be aware of.

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Rating: - Good reference and companion volume
For my introduction to today's Basic (no longer all caps, I note) and my re-education in programming, I found this to be the best value if you already have the Basic 6 program. If you haven't you might want to try one of the other books, such as Practical Visual Basic 6 by Bob Reselman and Richard Peasley which includes a disk with the Working Model Edition of Microsoft's Visual Basic 6. Professional programmers of course will want to buy the full-blown Visual Basic, but even they might find this manual handy.

I came from the environment of the line numbered GW Basic and even "Shingo" Basic after taking a class in Basic programming at the local junior college in the late eighties. After that I learned QuickBasic on my own. QuickBasic was a programming language developed from Basic that incorporated the structured programming techniques and some of the commands and ideas used in more professional languages like C, and I forget what else. I wrote some moderately complicated ... Read More

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Rating: - FANTASTIC!!!!
for its price, and the amount of information provided, this book is an absolute must have for anyone who does any sort of visual basic programming. while it does skim over some of the more advanced topics in some places, it does what most other visual basic books do not - provides the reader with an awareness of the advanced topics so that they can then decide whether they wish to pursue those subjects further. with example programs that can be downloaded from the Sybex website ... and heaps of explanations and exercises within the book, it will take you to a whole new level of visual basic expertise.

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