Advanced Programming in Visual Basic 6.0 W/CD

In fairness to the authors, this book is actually good at teaching on how to do a 3-tier application. The title says "ADVANCED", so the authors are assuming the reader to have a decent knowledge with VB.net. It does not go into detail as to explain the basic programming concepts, but teaches the student straight forward application design and implementation. From the many books I've purchased and read regarding 3-layer designs using VB, this one I consider to be one of the best, following the books on OOP by Dan Clark and Doing Objects in vb 2005 by Deb Kurata. One qualm I don't like about this is the way coloured pages are structured, eye glaring, but totally recommended to programmers who want to have an understanding how to design interface,business and data layer application.

I am a student in information systems at a major university. I do tutoring (for Visual Basic .NET students). While sitting in the professor's office whom I am tutoring for, I often look through her (gigantic) collection of ~1000 Information Technology (IT) books. I have been programming ASP for ~5 years, and started ASP.NET ~6 months ago. Making the leap from VB Script (advanced as I was) to Visual Basic .NET full blown object oriented programming was a big step. This book made that step complete. After going through dozens of books on the subject (visual basic .net, C#, asp.net, etc) this book starts with the most necessary things you need to know.It is really designed for those it says; "advanced". If you have no prior programming experience, then look elsewhere. But this book will throw you right into the best features of Visual Basic .NET, especially those features you might not pick up on at first when you are switching from another language.

I've been programming webforms in VB.NET for a couple of months now and I've read a number of books on the subject. This book is excellent if you have some programming experience preferably object oriented languages. Sure it blazes thru some of the key OOP concepts but if you want to learn that stuff get a different book. What this book did for me was that it simply gave me different views on (for instance) concurrency control, data access, etc. There were a bunch of good reusable code snippets as well. Obviously it is a book intended for students although I found it very useful for both winform programming as well as webform programming. I just wish it had even more pages!Now go get it!