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Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Reference Library
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Author: Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Press
List Price: $79.99
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ISBN: 1572318643
Publisher: Microsoft Press (August, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 33,977
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Its a Reference
This book is not at all intended to be a novel, its a reference. I will admit that this book is not ordered as would have thought, although there is some logical way to work with the book. This is a reference that I trust and use, I am one to stand up for this book, it has a lot of example code. I would hope that any intermedite programmer would consider this book, it holds a hell of a lot more example code than many others.
Rating: 1 out of 5
A most thoughtless representation of facts
There is less information in this book than is supplied in MSDN help function. In addition it is presented in a far less ogranized manner. If you are buying this book to clarify or get an overview of commands, functions, objects etc. You will be disappointed. It's like a history book in alphabetical order. Rather useless since history happens chronologically. At least the MSDN help screens have a contents tab that lists the functions, objects, etc. This book does not. Page 1 starts first with the A's and the last page ends on the Z's. Virtually nothing before or after. Not even an index or a simple command overview (list of commands, objects etc). You better know what you are looking for before you open this book. Buy it and you will see what I mean.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Not as good as other MS books
I've always enjoyed the Programmers guide's MS puts out for the dev tools. The recent one for VB6 is no exception. It's a very good book, written in a captivating way.Sadly, the reference library is much different. I've had great difficulty staying focused enough to read through the component tools guide (volume 3). It's written in a very boring, and not very educational manner. The programmer's guide guides you through new concepts by having you type in examples you can execute. I think this is a good way to become a self taught VB programmer. The component tools guide doesn't work the same way. It gives you the same step by step instructions, but they are incomplete, and cannot work on their own. Example (p854) : "2. In the Add HTML Template dialog box, select the HTML page you want, then click OK." The programmers guide would walk you through creation of an HTML page that could become functional after this step. Instead the component tools guide gives you this step without any help on the HTML page that can be functional. Sure, a code example is included on the MSDN CD, but it doesn't have the same learning value if you don't create it yourself. Also, what good is this step 2 when you already have the code sample? People who have learned from the MS programmers guides will probably understand what I'm saying here. Those who have not are probably lost.
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