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Core MCSD: Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Visual Basic 6 (Prentice Hall series on Microsoft technologies) [Hardcover]

Steven Holzner (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 1024 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (22 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0130139882
  • ISBN-13: 978-0130139887
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,255,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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For courses in Visual-Basic Programming.

This study guide provides complete coverage of all the objectives necessary to pass the most popular core Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer exam—Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Visual Basic 6.0 (Exam 70-176). Integrated learning solutions include a companion website, CBT module on CD-ROM, and text that presents in-depth treatment of topics and tutorials that not only help develop students' skills for the exam, but prepare professionals for real-world challenges on the job.

From the Back Cover

  • Ace Microsoft's Exam 70-176
  • The TOTAL MCSD Learning Solution
  • Includes CBT Systems Visual Basic training module
  • Includes access to an exclusive Companion MCSD Visual Basic training site
  • More than just a cram guide: the perfect Visual Basic 6 tutorial & reference!

DON'T JUST READ ABOUT IT!

Included FREE on the CD-ROM is a complete Visual Basic 6 computer-based training course chosen especially for this book—from CBT Systems, the #1 provider of interactive training software for IT professionals!

  • Covers every key exam objective-in-depth
  • Designing applications and user services
  • Forms, controls, menus, and advanced user interfaces
  • COM clients and components, ActiveX, active documents, DHTML, and the Internet
  • Database integration and data-bound controls
  • Debugging, packaging, deploying, and maintaining advanced VB6 applications
  • Includes exam strategy discussions, working examples, nearly 350 sample exam questions, and more!

Pass Microsoft's Visual Basic 6 Desktop Developer exam—with flying colors!

Top Visual Basic author Steven Holzner has written the most complete, to-the-point VB6 Desktop exam prep guide ever published. Holzner covers every Microsoft exam objective, with especially thorough coverage of the intermediate-to-advanced topics most likely to trip you up on the exam.

For example, you'll find hundreds of pages of COM coverage: all you need to start creating COM clients, components, and ActiveX controls, and build sophisticated VB6 Web applications. Holzner reviews database integration in depth: ADO, OLE DB, data-bound controls, SQL queries, and much more. No other similar book covers database programming as thoroughly. You'll find complete chapters on crucial topics such as advanced user interface custom controls, and a systematic review of VB6 error handling and debugging.

From application planning through packaging, deployment, and maintenance, this isn't just a great exam preparation package—it's the best Visual Basic 6 development tutorial and reference you can buy. If you're ready to join the elite group of MCSD-certified VB6 developers, don't settle for anything less!

A TOTAL Learning Solution! Includes these EXCLUSIVE Web & interactive resources!

We've teamed up with CBT Systems, the world's #1 developer of IT self-paced training, to include a state-of-the-art interactive Visual Basic training course on CD-ROM! And that's not all: Every Prentice Hall PTR MCSD book is 100% integrated with its own exclusive MCSD training Web site, which features:

  • Interactive test Q&A section
  • Projects you can complete—with detailed solutions
  • Virtual Study Lounge: Interact with students, authors, and trainers on-line
  • Author's Corner: Book & exam updates, training news and more

BONUS! Look inside for coupons offering valuable discounts on additional training at Scholars.com, the world's #1 interactive training site.

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Format:Hardcover
There is almost no coverage of SourceSafe, the book is riddled with typos and errors (listing events that don't exist and leaving out ones that do!), coverage of topics that aren't even related to the 70-176 exam (granted, they may be useful, but what's the point of learning them for the exam?), the test questions are just plain wrong and for some reason there is coverage of DAO and RDO. 'MCSD In A Nutshell' by James Foxall is much more useful and comprehensive and I would reccommend that combined with MSDN instead of this woeful travesty.
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At the end of each chapter there are 15 example questions which are similar to the questions asked in the exam. Some topics covered are not required for the exam, though good reading. An exam matrix at the beginning of the book highlights all relevant sections within chapters and questions relating to the exam topics covered. I found this helpful after completing the book as final preperation. Although not a great reference book, it will come in handy in the future. 7wks study with this book and some example questions from the net gave me a first time pass.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Room for Improvement 3 Dec 1999
By Matthew Burnside - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
I passed this exam today. While this book was helpful and covered most every exam objective in sufficient depth, it needs some work. For God's sake, when will somebody create an MCSD book that doesn't have a glaring error in every chapter? From wrongly keyed practice tests to glaring contradictions, this book had it all. Case in point, pp.126-127 "(the controls) collection is not a true Visual Basic Collection because it does not support the full member set that a Visual Basic Collection object has. However, it does have a COUNT property, as well as ITEM, ADD, and REMOVE methods." Umm...that's what a VB collection has. The content (when it was correct) was sufficient, but the book was soured by such errors. Did I mention get the Transcenders?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A great study guide 22 Nov 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
To make it short and sweet--this book helped me pass the exam. Good, complete coverage of objectives. Helpful background material, too. I'm glad I bought it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I just passed today! 25 April 2001
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This book defintely helped me pass the test. The test covered every topic on the test, including the Package and Deployment wizard and VSS, which other books tend to be weak on. It was easy to see how each topic matched the topics on the exam. Each concept is marked with a number that corresponds to a topic on the exam, so you can see which chapter in the book covers each part of the exam. There are typos, and I found a few questions that gave incorrect answers in the answer key, but overall it was the best book out of the three books I purchased(O'Reilly's came in a close second, with Coriolis Exam Prep a far distant third)
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