Fast way to learn by example!
This is a very good book. If you like to learn by example, this book has very good useful examples to get your project "up in the air" very quickly.
This book is an ideal supplement to a reference manual and really accelerates the learning process. I got a very good price on Amazon, but this book is worth full-bang retail price in terms of pure value. I would highly recommend this book, even if someone only found 5 examples out of the 101 examples, but depending on your project, nearly every example could be applied in some way to your project(s).
Good content...wish it was available in C#
Good, simple components that can be used as a part of larger applications.
Good explanations.
The only negative thing that I can see is that I wish it was available in C#. But then again, it provides a new challenge to translate it without having the C# code right there in front of me.
Good book but for old version of .NET
101 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Applications
It is a good book with a lot examples to learn from.
But examples require some extra work if you use .NET 2005
Amazing reference!
I bought this book just a few weeks ago, and WOW. Thre is such a range of information here! This book is especially targeted at programmers that aren't particularly familiar with what all VB.NET can offer.
Granted, this product does not cover any of the topic very extensivly, but that's not what it was written for. 90% of the topics covered in the book are explained in more detail in the MSDN library.
All in all, this book is one of the best ways to find great ideas to improve functionality in all your VB.NET projects.
A book is more than just the code
Jerry Bucknoff wrote a review where he says skip the book because you can just download the code. I don't get this. I buy a book for more than just the CD stuffed in the back. This book has 500+ pages that taught me how to do in VB.NET, the things I knew how to do in VB6. Maybe if you're a rocket scientist, you can just stare at the code and learn everything, but those 500 pages really got me up to speed on .NET.
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