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( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Aug 20 2006
Although to me some of the errors were obvious but for a beginner they might not be that obvious and you could get stuck with an error screen for hours and hours thinking YOU are wrong and the book is right, before finally discovering you need to adjust cause the book is just wrong. they add four menu items for example, while in the image you see it are five. then in the code they work with five so you have to make the fifth one yourself and discover its name etc. Also they tell you to rename the buttons but in their code you can't follow anymore cause they didnt rename their own buttons. This was just in chapter 1, the third day, which is the first real code writing lesson. I can't understand why someone would give this book a five star rating. It's very confusing for a beginner with all the errors. But if you have a decent basis and you can easily discover the errors it might still be ok, but not highly recommended.
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( 6 of 6 found this review helpful ) Posted: Apr 4 2006
This might be the book for you, if: - you need a crash course in VS.Net, - you're pretty well-versed in Visual Basic 6.0 - you're pretty good at filtering out irrelevant praise for the product - you are willing to skim through examples, getting the jist of things without actually trying to make them work - you can't find a more carefully-written crash-course book covering the same ground Then again, if you're that good to begin with, you can probably learn VS.Net without a crash-course book.
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( 7 of 7 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 20 2006
Unfortunately, the code examples in this book are fraught with careless errors. What's the point of picking up a book to learn VS .Net if the code examples don't work? Moreover, the author's claim (p.3) of a website featuring code samples, fixes, and other helpful materials to supplement the book is simply untrue. That website (http://www.vbasp.net) exists, but has nothing uploaded. I wasted many hours trying to get code examples to work before learning through Amazon.com Reviews that others have had the same problem. How disappointing.
