I chose Wrox Press "Beginning Visual Basic 6" by Peter
Wright, ISBN 1-861001-05-03 as the text for a beginner's level VB class
that I taught and I was very pleased with the results and feedback from
the students about the book.


-- 
Joseph Andrews
joeandrews1@z... - email




---- John Walborn <JWalborn@m...> wrote:
> You might also look at Wrox Press "Beginning Visual Basic 6" by Peter
> Wright, ISBN 1-861001-05-03.
> 
> When I picked up this book I was an experienced QBasic (and GWBasic)
> programmer. It starts out slow, but if you skip the first 4 chapters
> it does
> well. Helps greatly to have some object oriented programming experience...
> 
> But anyway, it's a really decent reference volume and I think the later
> chapters would serve well for a moderately skilled VB coder.
> 
> Peace,
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Imar Spaanjaars [mailto:Imar@S...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:49 PM
> To: professional vb
> Subject: [pro_vb] Advanced book on VB
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> For a colleague of mine I am looking for a good and advanced book on
> VB. It 
> has to be something way deeper than the Programmers Reference or VB
> for 
> dummies, but not as tough as "Advanced Visual Basic 6" by Matthew Curland.
> 
> (When I showed him that book he almost freaked ;-)) He already knows
> a lot 
> about VB as a language, but he needs more structure and depth in his
> 
> programming.
> 
> Basically what I would like is a book that deals with VB as a language,
> but 
> also with the design of applications, the way VB apps should be structured,
> 
> error handling etc etc. Some case studies would be nice as well. Some
> 
> COM(+) topics would be really nice, although I suspect I need a separate
> 
> book just for COM (suggestions for titles are welcome as well)
> 
> I know Wrox has some advanced books on VB but they all seem to deal
> only 
> with one subject, like Web or databases.
> 
> Anybody any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Imar
> 
>