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5.0 out of 5 stars
A very useful perspective on VB for the new-ish user, 12 Jan 2001
I've really enjoyed reading this book and learned from it. Sadly, I didn't save by buying here at Amazon but thought it rated a review nonetheless. The fact that I bought it in the bookstore where I was browsing it speaks volumes.I think it is best read when you've found your way around VB but hopefully before you've aquired too many habits - so for the new to intermediate VBers. I suspect those with much VB experience probably would know and understand the issues raised. Why it is a useful reference is because it goes through a range of issues explaining why you do things in a certain manner in a way that many other VB books don't - they assume you know. I certainly wish I'd had this before I took the VB6 Desktop exam. It usefully includes a chapter on the Package and Deployment wizard. Not something well covered in books - or the MSDN library for that matter. The book is hard to categorise as it is more covered than the book's title might imply. There are 15 chapters, the first two being on design & deployment methods. Then, Debugging, Errors, Conditional Compilation, Windows API, ActiveX Data, ActiveX Controls, User Interface, Optimization & Tuning, COM, Package & Deployment, MS Office, Databases, Web & DHTML, and lastly a look ahead to VB.net (VB7). So not a book purely on error trapping and debugging but more about good practice. The style is very readable for a software book and appropriately illustrated. Recommended.
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