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Title: VB.net Developer's Guide (With CD-ROM) by Cameron Wakefield, Henk-Evert Sonder, Wei Meng Lee ISBN: 1-928994-48-2 Publisher: Syngress Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (6 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Stingy on comments and explanations
Comment: I would not give this book 1 (one) star as Bill/Beverly did but I understand their frustration. I woudl give it 2.5 stars but they don't allow for 1/2 stars. I agree more with J Michalany this book lacks content.

My view is the authors were too stingy with the explanations and comments. The book would have been much better if the explanations following the sample code truly explained the sample code. Or if the sample code had sufficient comments.

The authors spent 20 page on programming fundamentals. This could have been covered in one chart/table (i.e. List the programming function and tell us how it has changed in .Net). I wish they had spent those pages on some of the newer concepts. For instance the GET and Return and how that effects the processing in the properties.

The authors also introduce new items and then they fail to explain them. They also do not inform you that they will be explained later (i.e. the Imports keyword) in the book. This leaves you scratching you head trying to understand an under commented abbreviated slip of code.

However they have the most comprehensive index I have ever seen in a textbook. More textbooks should take note of this.

Rating: 1
Summary: Avoid this book like the plague!
Comment: Unless they have come out with a new edition that throws out 80% of the original edition, this book is so badly written and has so many egregious errors that it might take you weeks to unlearn all the wrong stuff it teaches you.

It was written by many authors, and it shows. A few parts have good content and actually teach worthwhile stuff. But for the most part the chapters either (a) just echo the online documentaion, telling you that you can change the font by applying the font property [doh!], (b) attempt to explain a complex topic in a dozen paragraphs, and so you learn nothing useful, or (c) are just plain flat wrong.

I don't have time to go into all the errors I found. The book is so bad that I couldn't even consider donating it to any charitable drive. It's now being used for starting fires in our fireplace. Come to think of it, that might be the best use for it.

Rating: 3
Summary: Nice but..... lack in content
Comment: Ok, it's a nice book. But it lacks in code examples, (i.e., lots of methods and properties, but not codes). It really shows you the new features of the .Net Framework, but sometimes the book is boring... Instead of teaching you what things are used for, it just shows you other informations, in a deep manner, but not the code by itself.
Anyways, it's on my reference library, but if you want to learn .Net by other ways, like practicing with codes, I suggest you to look for other books.

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