Visual Basic 6 Core Language Little Black Book

This is a great reference, especially if you are a programmer and need to brush up on VB syntax and coding tools. Nice price and size also.

This book served as a very efficient way for me to get started in VB. In about 2 - 3 hours it gave me a good enough overview in VB to start being productive. It gave me a quick overview of each major area of VB and allowed me to easily select the areas where I needed more data. This book saved me money (as I am an independent) and allowed me to study the additional data I want to know about VB while working with it on a day to day basis, which I find a much easier study.

For all the books on the shelf, I would say this book never collects dust, just attention! The chapters are clear and well defined, making it easy to find code your looking for. Error handlers, Working with Forms, Declaring Variables helped me out.I avoided alot of runtime errors with the code given in the book. I'm convinced, Buy it!!

While the answer to life, the universe and VB6 would have been many times the size of this book, the author did an excellent job of presenting the fundamentals of VB6 in a way that was very easy to use as a reference. He managed to hit nearly every point I really needed, and gave complete, if somewhat sketchy, examples. No wasted verbiage, no gratuitous editorializing; just solidly-written reference material.

"Immediate Solutions" is what the cover says and, immediate solutions are exactly what Visual Basic programmers get. No timewasting, no schleppy tutorials, but excellent demonstrations on how do get things done! The best part is that very little/no prior knowledge is assumed, unlike many of the books written by authors, whose linguistic styles resemble speech enabled computer systems! Good stuff, Mr.Holzner!