|
Professional Development with Visio 2000 (Other Sams)
 |
Author: David Edson
List Price: $49.99
Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price
ISBN: 067231813X
Publisher: SAMS (20 December, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 131,212
Average Customer Rating: 3.1 out of 5
|
Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Advanced VBA Source
This book is a very good book for advanced VBA development with Visio. This book is not for the faint at heart. If you are looking to do serious development using Visio then this is one of the books that you need. I admit that there are some typos in this book, but this doesn't detract from the value and advanced concepts that this book teaches. You are not going to be able to find very many books that have this depth. You need to be a senior level developer to appreciate the content of this book. I recommend this book for serious VBA Visio Automation.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Good Information, Poorly Presented
Having now read most of this book, I can say that I learned far more than I got from the Microsoft PDF files that shipped with Visio Pro--but I can't say I enjoyed it. If a writer with an ego bothers you, find a different author. If errors bother you, find a different publisher. As if to make a page quota, whole paragraphs are repeated, changing only a letter: "PosX is the X coordinate...{6-line paragraph)" followed by "PosY is the Y coordinate...(SAME 6-line paragraph)". This cut and paste goes on for pages in places. Examples and exercises almost never yield a useful product, though they are carefully explained. David knows a lot of history of the tool, which would have been pretty interesting except for the thread of vanity that sewed the stories together.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent choice
David Edson expects the user to be fluent with the elementary Visio features and VBA. The book builds upon this premise and imparts a comprehensive and incremental teaching of Visio. While the examples and illustrations are chosen well, the accompanying CD was missing a few examples, and came up blank. Overall, I strongly recommend this book to help for automation using Visio.
Similar Products
· Developing Microsoft Visio Solutions
· Learn Microsoft Visio 2002 for the Advanced User
· Microsoft Visio 2000 Quick Source Reference Guide
· Visio 2000: The Official Guide
|
