Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic.Net: An Object-Oriented Approach-Comprehensive Edition

I have been using this book in concert with another book to teach a two-semester course that covers an introduction to programming logic and design and business programming to MIS students. I have to say that it is like all textbooks, it is not perfect. It could go a little deeper on the explanations of code segments and probably should include additional topics like XML processing and Web services.For these reasons it received 4 stars instead of 5. However, for those of you that have dismissed this text, both students and instructors, you entirely missed the point and utility of the text. The style of presentation is wonderful and not disjointed. Students that complain about this text are unwilling to play a little 'connect the dots' on their own and teachers that want to cater to this type of student should rethink their strategy. If you want a textbook that will hold your hand and keep you from having to think too hard, then try another book. For the faint of heart I suggest the book by Zak and practically anyone else. The Bradley and Millspaugh books were on their way to being on the same level as Ekedahl and Newman, but missed the boat.

I thought the book was very helpful. Each chapter has a tutorial that takes you step by step to learn the material. It lists out all the relevant properties of controls and lets you know what each one does. The book explains a lot and uses pictures and screen shots to help. Yes, some of it is hard to understand, but almost every programming book has an element of this as it is not an easy task to learn a new language and it's not easy to explain it well through text alone. I wish the book would have covered more ASP.NET(only one chapter) and more on crystal reports. If you are just starting out this is a GREAT book. Even if you don't totally understand what the author is saying, you can still easily follow the tutorial step by step and will pick it up. I think books that uses tutorials are much easier to work with. If your confused there's always an easy to learn example.

I have been a Visual Basic 6 developer for 2 years and wanted to make a transition to VB.NET and to learn more on ASP.NET web applications programming. I decided to try this books and found it very helpful, it is very precise in regards to the topic under discussion and the tutorials accompanied with the Chapters are very good as well. The reader gets a complete picture of the topic and only after completing the topics in the book can manage to write it's own source code without any need from any other source. The Comprehensive edition of the book is more indepth for the ASP.NET and database programming concepts using ADO.NET. Definately a good book for beginners and middle level programmers.

I have been a Visual Basic 6.0 developer for the last two years and decided to upgrade my skills to .NET I found this book very helpful and full of valuable examples and tutorials. The basics of .NET environment are explained well in detail before the actual programming is started and that leaves quite a bit of margin for the readers to fully understand the environment before wetting their hands with code. Topics such as ADO.NET and ASP.NET are also explained in detail. To my surprise this time there is a complete new topic for Crystal Reports and its features, which makes the book an all in one resource. I would recommend this book to all the beginners and skilled VB developers as well. Thanks !!