Mastering Visual Basic 6 [With Includes All of the Example Code from the Book...]

This is yet another great book from Sybex. ive purchased most of the visual basic books that sybex put out, and i have yet to buy one i didnt get something - correction - A LOT from. this is not the sort of book a beginner should be looking at, "Visual Basic 6 Complete" (also from Sybex) might be more appropriate there, and "Visual Basic 6 Professional Step By Step" from Microsoft Press would definatly be a good choice. Mastering visual basic 6 provides examples and explanations of graphics processing code, and ActiveX control development, along with dozens of other topics, and for its price (as with all Sybex books), it cant be beat.

No matter what your Visual Basic learning level is, from needing a beginner's introduction to wanting to move up to a more advanced level, this is the book for you. Don't let the 1285 pages scare you. The read is neither dry nor boring, and each page hands-on teaches you something you can take with you. Topics cover the Visual Studio environment, the intrinsic toolbox tools for VB, plus expands into additional components and references, making this a one-stop learning reference. You can not go wrong with this title.

I rate this book highly because I think the book is easy to use and the examples are great. I am a mainframe programmer and I find his way of explaining things to be very good. I was recently certified in VB 5.0. And this book helped a lot. The author is very consistent in quality in every chapter. I have read this book twice. I recommend it to everyone. After you read this book then you might look for others, but I would start here. I am glad he did not spend a lot of time on ADO and database information - you can find that in other books. I think that the material he DID cover was appropriate for a book such as this.

I found this book quite descriptive and very informative. Even a biginner can follow it easily. The code examples in each chapter are really good and give u a good feel of working of VB. People who are already experienced in programing with VB will also find it very useful as each chapter has something new to know, though a Pro could skip first five chapters, they are very good for beginners. Over all it's a great book to learn from.