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Title: Advanced Visual Basic 6 : Power Techniques for Everyday Programs, Book w/CD-ROM (The DevelopMentor Series) by Matthew J. Curland ISBN: 0-201-70712-8 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 13 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I wish I could give this Ten Stars -- it is well deserved.
Comment: I wish I could give this Ten Stars -- it is well deserved.
Let's face it Visual Basic, by design, has many pitfalls, walls and cages -- with Matt Curland's Advanced Visual Basic 6 any developer can be free to design creatively without keeping track of what they can and cannot do.
This book is a must for Software Engineers developing in VB. After reading many books on Visual Basic and growing utterly exhausted by the phrase "beyond the scope of this book" I have finally found a VB book that caters to the Visual Basic Developer who needs to extend VB beyond the basics and bring professional quality level applications/components to the Windows Market.
The techniques offered are not only applicable to 'everyday programs', but also absolutely indispensable for creating VB applications with a fully professional look and feel.
For any Software Engineer who grew up writing Windows applications in C or COM components in ATL and who want to parlay that knowledge in the Visual Basic Environment, this book will take you there and beyond.
The text on the infamous VBized TypeLibrary is the only concise writing I have ever come across that fully defines what Visual Basic does when you add to an existing interface and rebuild as well as what you can do to prevent additional Interface IDs from being created.
For large development teams sharing components, the binary compatibility tools, included on the CD, are worth the price of admission alone. The binary compatibility tools is a must for any large extended VB project, and the post-build pieces give you simple point and click control over your finished product -- including elimination of external typelib dependencies and changing default interfaces.
I cannot say enough just how much this book has been a great addition in the development of new components and applications.
Rating: 5
Summary: Requires Discipline
Comment: I found this book to be absolutely amazing in terms of the type of power it exposes to the Visual Basic developer. Having said that I want to encourage anyone thinking of buying this book. It is not a book for beginners not by a long shot...if you have been programming in Visual Basic long enough to be frustrated by what cannot be done in VB compared to C++ then it is time to purchase this book...I wanted to point out a few things. First and foremost. The author provides the C++ code for the DLL. You can recompile against the Visual Studio.NET framework and you should be good to go. Second, the changes to VB exposed by .NET will require that more than the authors bridge code be tweaked. In fact Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET have little in common at all. So if you ditch this book and it's code for .NET reasons then ditch VB 6 while you are at it.
Last thing. The topics and the examples in this book will give you tremendous insight into Windows Programming. The concepts can easily be abstracted. The author shows you so much about COM, Interfaces, Pointers and memory. If you thoroughly understood the content of this book (which is realistic). You could walk away from Visual Basic 6.0 to a totally different programming language and immediately apply the information this book provides.
So if you are ready to study WITH DISCIPLINE. If you are ready to take your Visual Basic Applications to the next level WITH POWER & STABILITY. Then you are ready to buy this book.
My hat goes off to Matt Curland for finally providing a book that explains how to use Visual Basic to it's full potential.
Rating: 5
Summary: Keyhole Surgery Approach to Windows and COM Programming
Comment: This book even surpasses the possibilities of McKinley's "Hardcore Visual Basic". You almost gain the power of C/C++ type Windows and COM programming.
This book is not easy to read. You do need a C level expertise on Windows' and COM's inner working. Though no ATL or MFC is required.
I did learn a lot of the apparently strange behavior of VB. It is now clearer to me. But should you really apply those grandiose tricks. (For proper clean up purposes you should not hit the stop button anymore.) The answer is the same as for optimization. Don't do it! But if I am really in need? Don't do it! ... After at least ten iterations including solid peer review you might try it. The author makes it pretty easy. The book has a CD with an excellent and well modularized library and lots of example code.
Is this book still relevant after the advent of VS.Net? I think so yes. It is an intellectual joy to read this book. (Why couldn't I read it 1996?) We and many other institutions still write a lot of code in VB 6. Anyhow this probably was my last book on VB 6.
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Title: Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 by Francesco Balena ISBN: 0735605580 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 26 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Subclassing & Hooking with Visual Basic by Stephen Teilhet ISBN: 0596001185 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API by Dan Appleman ISBN: 0672315904 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic Object and Component Handbook by Peter Vogel ISBN: 0130230731 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step-By- Step. by Michael Halvorson ISBN: 1572318090 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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