Jorge Luis Babot said
I reached page 66 and could not endure another sentence. The author endlessly expresses his adoration for VB2008 and explains what he is going to explain further down tin the book so that by page 66 I had learned some things, but certainly not 66 pages worth. I'm getting another book.
Anne Marie Allen said
I needed to take a visual basic course as an elective. Yeah, like a foreign language to a nurse. This book went slow, and really showed in "baby steps" the process, I couldn't have made it through the course without it.
Dean Liming said
I usually do not buy books for Dummies but at a ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Symposium I heard Bill Sempf speak and after reading his book; I found things in his book that were explained better and with more detail than in the five professional books I bought. I have been programming for 32 years with many different computer languages and now I am working on Visual Studio 2008. I liked the history and the why things are the way they are explained in this book.
Dean Liming MBA
Kurt S. Johnson said
The book is written in English rather than computerese, which I appreciate. The inclusion of code examples is critical to learning, and this book's got them. Glad I've got this one.
Thad Lamphier said
While a decent Dummies book in essence, the problem lies in it's target. The main focus on the book is VB 2008 Professional Edition. I find it hard to think of a common situation where a user would have full access to VB'08 PE, a $650 package at least, and be on a "dummies" level. For a user to have a need of this book, they would normally be on an entry level. Most entry level user's would be using VB'08 Express. There are a lot of features he highlights that are not available in this edition. This makes this book of little use for a lot of the "dummies" demographic.
It does have a lot of useful information in it. With some trial and error and copious use of the Help files, you can adapt this book to the VB Express edition. I have to give it 2 stars for that. I wish I had found another resource instead to waste my money on.
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