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Title: Visual Basic 6 Object-Oriented Programming Gold Book: Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft's New ActiveX Release by Gene Swartzfager, Purshottam Chandak, Steve Alvarez, Ramesh Chandak ISBN: 1-57610-255-6 Publisher: The Coriolis Group Pub. Date: 13 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: VB OOP Poor Book
Comment: I regret that I have bought this useless book. This book does not teach you OO concepts well. The title of this book is misleading.

All the VB examples are not practical and cannot illustrate the power of Object Oriented Programming. Some examples on the CD-ROM contain errors and some are meaningless. It also teaches ActiveX controls and components but you still do not know how to use them after you have read it.

I bought it because I cannot find the 'Learn to Program Objects With Visual Basic 6' by Active Path in HK. This is the worst VB book I have ever found in the bookshop.

This book is not for beginners and advanced users too!

I regret that I have paid for such a useless book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excelent book on Object-Oriented Programming
Comment: This book gave me an ability to understand principles of OOP as they are presented in MS Visual Basic. It was a different experience from what I knew and used in everyday practice as Java Programmer. Also, this was the only book that I could find that would use normal, useful examples.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Foundation on Object Analysis
Comment: This book very well covers a complete foundation of Visual Basic 6.0 objects paramount to consider oneself a proficient VB architect. It starts with the basics: abstraction, polymorphism, and inheritance, and how these relate to the ActiveX/COM programming paradigm. Best practices of object design are instilled in the early chapters of the book-practices such as relational modeling and interface design. The author illustrates the usage of the many built-in wizard tools that come with VB 6.0. Object lifetime events are thoroughly explained. An example of creating a custom, type-checked collection class is provided. Advanced error trapping and recovery are covered in-depth. The later half of the book puts these foundational concepts to use when developing ActiveX components. Examples show how to link a help file to an ActiveX control. And finally, a chapter dedicated to the practice of encapsulating the Win32 API in custom-built ActiveX components is given. Overall, I would recommend this textbook to my Visual Basic students.