Description: As an experienced VB developer seeking to learn VB.NET this was the first book I read. After reading this book I came to the conclusion that VB.NET was not much of a change from VB 6!! Well having since gained greater knowledge I now know that that conclusion was just plain wrong. This book gives people the wrong impression of what VB.NET really is. Most of the examples in this book just review the basics of VB in general and worse, far far worse, this book often uses the old VB 6 coding techniques instead of the new .NET ones where newer techniques exist. But the old techniques are merely allowed in .NET for backward compatibility! Is this a good book for beginners? No, it is too much of an odd hybrid between VB 6 and true VB.NET programming. It does not describe any actual existing language as it *should* be programmed. I will concede that many of the basics it teaches are still valid. However ,they are mixed in with techniques that are obsolete to .NET and a beginner is going to ha ..
ISBN:
0735613745
Release Date:
23 January, 2002
List Price:
$27.99
Author:
Michael Halvorson
Publisher:
Microsoft Press
Last Updated:
06/26/2003
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