Visual Basic 6 Master Reference: The Definitive Visual Basic Reference [With *]

This book has everything I need. I found browsing(?) the book helpful as I encountered methods and code used in other books. It provides a good description of properties and what objects use them. The gigantic number of properties in VB at first intimidated me when VB1 came out in 1991, but this book helps greatly to overcome fears. The example code is good, but I would like to see much more sample code ( as we ALL would ). Buy this as a Reference tome to backup the other books you buy about VB.

The other reviews sum up the book nicely. It is much easier to use then the MSDN CDs. Here is some of what it does not include taken from the preface to the book: "This book does not cover the many additional controls (such as DataGrid,MonthView,MSChart, and Winsock) supplied with some editions of Visual Basic, as well as all events, methods, properties, and objects associated with these additional controls. Moreover, this book does not cover any controls, objects, properties, events, or methods used in Visual Basic database programming." They estimated a book covering all of VB would be twice this book's size. So if you are looking specifically for database help, you'll have to look elsewhere.

I bought this book from the bookstore few weeks ago and i can say that it is one of the best buys i have made.I mean it is with hard covers, it has most of the control references in it and the examples are really helpful. And this is like the best laid out book i have seen in a long time. For the work place you can hardly find a better reference (at least on the controls).

This book is exactly what I was looking for. I consider myself to be an intermediate user (working hard to become an advanced user), and what I was looking for was a easy to use, fairly complete, concise reference book to supplement my library of "How to program in VB" books.Topics are broken down alphabetically, and like a dictionary, the Visual Basic 6 Master Reference has little three letter "tabs" on the edge of each page (i.e. "efg") help you locate your information quickly. The information on each topic is well presented, and includes little snippets of code that help to clarify and illustrate correct usage.Although this book is very good, it is not perfect. I have searched for some bits of information only to find that the book doesn't include them. But I can't imagine any single volume paperback or hardcover book that could provide information on all that VB has to offer.To summarize: this is a great reference book (not a how-to book) that covers a great deal of information about the Visual Basic 6 programming language.