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Title: Dan Appleman's Developing Com/Activex Components With Visual Basic 6 by Dan Appleman, Daniel Appleman ISBN: 1-56276-576-0 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.66 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book
Comment: Dan's book is definitely an authoritative work on the subject of COM/ActiveX development using Visual Basic. Even though the book is geared toward professional VB programmers, the material presented provides a well-rounded view of COM/ActiveX for most developers, providing them with the knowledge required to build professional, quality components.
While this book could be read by VB programmers at any level, the book does move a bit faster than most, suggesting that the reader should be familiar with some of the concepts beforehand in order to fully appreciate what Dan is writing about. This is not a limitation in any way. It was refreshing to read a book that got to the core issues quickly.
I appreciate the fact that Dan did not put much code into the printed material. He included only what was necessary to make his point. This left more room for detailed coverage of the relevant issues. Many times, books will be inundated with hard-to-follow code instead of relevant discussion of the information. This book was packed full of information.
I recommend Dan's book to others because I know it covers topics that are essential to VB programmers. COM/ActiveX issues will only become more important as Visual Basic continues to evolve into an Object-Oriented development tool.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing book
Comment: The book covers ActiveX/COM but in a very wordy fashion. Pages and pages of irrelevant text make finding the core issues difficult. Some of the topic examples are reasonably useful, others are extremely trite. Surely Appleman can come up with better scenarios than rabbits in hutches.
I bought this book to help take me beyond what is available in the Microsoft VB documentation, but it does not do so in any useful way. Having already splashed out the money on the book, I would prefer if advertising was kept in one section, rather than having it throughout the book (loads of code segments, no matter how trivial, are prefaced with a Desaware copyright notice, and we are continually told of their software products).
This book has lots of body but not enough meat.
Rating: 1
Summary: Second review and this is still a bad book
Comment: About a year ago, I wrote a review about this book. Everyone was saying that this was a great book, so when I gave this book only 1 star, I took alot of heat from people who think that "Dan's the Man!!". I decided to review this book again. This is my second review and my result is still the same. Dan may be the guru of Visual Basic but he cannot communicate those thoughts into written words. Don't get me wrong, Dan knows how to talk and this book is full of talk, but talk is not teaching nor will talk help you master the advanced subjects such as COM. In this book, Dan starts to tell you about subject, then he goes off on a tangent. Sooner or later, he might return to the subject. The cartoons in the book have a striking resemblance to "Bevis and Butthead". That is a scary thought! Bevis and Butthead becoming software developers and then writing a book about it. The cheap sales pitches for software that his company sells should have been put into an appendix. This book is a very large book (800+ pages) but if you cut out the cartoons and all of the talk, this book would be 1/2 of it's size. I recommend Peter Vogel's book "Visual Basic Object and Component Handbook" instead. Dan is a very smart man but that does not mean he is a great author.
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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: Advanced Visual Basic 6 : Power Techniques for Everyday Programs, Book w/CD-ROM (The DevelopMentor Series) by Matthew J. Curland ISBN: 0201707128 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 13 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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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: Dan Appleman's Win32 Api Puzzle Book and Tutorial for Visual Basic Programmers : by Dan Appleman ISBN: 1893115011 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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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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