Visual Basic

I am a learn as you go vb programmer. This book was constantly by my side and used more than all my other books combined. It is a fast and easy way to check the syntax and parameters of a statemets.Two complaints: 1. Examples were given of instructions, but not results. Sometimes it was not clear to me exactly what the statement would do. 2. No reference of statements by type. For example, if working with time and dates, you have to be familiar with the various statements, no list of all time and date statements.

I think this book irreplacable on my reference shelf. I use it everyday for work. If you do any Visual Basic work, I recommend that you get this book. It's only $15 and it has already paid for itself several times over. I use this book every day, and highly recommend it to anyone. A previous reviewer complained about a bad binding (true) and simple index. Since the all the language and method entries are alphabetic, I never really looked at the index. I also always use the `See Also' listings at the end of each term to find related commands.