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Visual Basic 5 is most popular programming tool in the world. Visual Basic 5 is a serious application development tool as well as being the most popular gateway to programming. One of the key factors in its success has been its late support for object oriented programming techniques. With VB programmers can create their own reusable bits of program code, making the development process safer, faster and cheaper. However understanding both the concepts of object programming and how it works with VB is a new field for existing VB programmers.

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Visual Basic 5 is a serious application development tool as well as being the most popular gateway to programming. One of the key factors in its success has been its late support for object oriented programming techniques. VB programmers can create their own reusable bits of program code, making the development process safer, faster and cheaper. However understanding both the concepts of object programming and how it works with VB is a new field for existing VB programmers. This is the second Visual Basic book that everyone needs. It assumes you have read and worked through a practical tutorial such as Beginning Visual Basic. This book teaches you how to take advantage of creating programs as a series of self-contained objects. Uses practical object oriented techniques to design and build working programs by putting the theory into practice. This book is for programmers who have some knowledge of programming with Visual Basic and want to learn how to do object-oriented development. You should be familiar with controls and their properties, methods and events, but no previous knowledge of object-oriented programming, classes or ActiveX is assumed.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   Peter does Databases and VB OO programming, 9 Jul 1999 By A Customer He non-chalantly covers what has been a very stick y subject. His style is friendly ... a little wordy. But when he puts nuts and bolts together .. the guy has quite a philosophy ... I've been a VB programmer since v3. VB3 and VB4 didn't do objects .. so I went to Java. Even though I am familiar with OO programming ... he was NOT boring ... and spelled things out simple stupid 123. If you are Einstein or Forest Gump .. .you will get something out of this book .. if you do what he says .. and punch the keyboard through his examples. He should (but probably won't) .. get a commission on my next programming project !!  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   0 of 1 people found the following review helpful: People with an axe to grind shouldn't write books!, 15 April 1999 By A Customer I read this book to learn about OOP in VB. When I read a book to teach me certain things, I don't want a narrow-minded guide. Peter Wright's continual proclamations of how great VB is, and how it's just as good (if not better) than C/C++ are simply insulting. VB is not the language to kill off all other languages, and never will be. Someone with such a restricted view should not be writing books - if he's so limited in his views, how do the readers know he isn't omitting other areas of OOP simply beacuse he doesn't like them. I don't care what the author prefers, I want to know about it all so I can make my own judgement. Also, if I want a book to make me laugh, I'll buy Terry Pratchett. His attempts at humour are not appreciated. Why not present the material, instead of talking about being a 'hip and trendy programmer' ? If I want a book to teach me about programming, I won't be buying Peter Wright (nor if I want a book to make me laugh) Look elsewhere than this book, you'll be glad you did.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   I hate this book and I hate Peter Wright., 12 April 1999 By A Customer Why you may ask? Because I now have to go away and rewrite my entire Application to use objects. The book superbly illiustrates the problems and pifulls with the archaic (!) structured programming method and then gives a complete tutorial in how to use OOP. This book is an excellent starting point for those wishing to learn about coding with objects and using ActiveX. This book isn't a reference manual for ActiveX, but it's enough to make me appear an expert in my office.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 9 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews I found it quite easy the way it's laid out. Being an experienced VB programmer, I like the way Peter laid out the way he explained it all. Before reading this book, I really didn't have much understanding of... Read more Published on 19 Jan 1999 Peter Wright does it again...This time with Objects Beginning Visual Basic 5.0 by Peter Wright was the first book on Visual Basic that I read. Peter Wright's easy to follow style and use of understandable real world examples... Read more Published on 19 Sep 1998 Don't buy this book if you really want to learn code The actual information and teaching in this book could have been easily compressed into 200 pages. The other 449 pages are mostly comprised of Peter Wright boasting about how... Read more Published on 24 Jul 1998 Definitely Helpfull I bought this book because I knew nothing of OOP or Active X components and was faced with the task of being responsible for enhancing an application written using those... Read more Published on 17 Jul 1998 Great introduction to OOP This book starts with the basics of OOP and progresses at a rapid pace into all areas of object-oriented development. Read more Published on 4 Jul 1998 I think they pulled it off quite well too! I am quite a fan of Peter Wright's first Visual Basic 5 Book. This one, if anything, is better. There is a logical progression of topics and many code examples that are short and... Read more Published on 1 Jun 1998 Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 9 customer reviews...