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Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic (DV-MPS General) Review by anonymous
Practical standards for the rest of us
An individual with a CS degree would probably find this material simplistic. However, for the rest of us this book is invaluable. Like many in this field today, I came from a business background. I found that this book in combination with Code Complete helped to solidify my basic programming foundation.
While Code Complete is a general software design book, this book is very focused on VB. It starts off with simple suggestions (project templates and forms) to improve productivity and standardization. Sections follow this on procedure scope, naming conventions, formatting and commenting. The section on error handling was especially helpful. The book covered all the VB IDE settings for error debugging and made suggestions on error handler specifications. I even learned a few things on something as simple as looping structures. The final chapters on GUI design, user data entry, and version control were the strongest part of the book. Although GUI design was limited to one chapter, I gained more from it than many entire books.
If I hadn't read Code Complete first, I might have been tempted to give this book five stars. This book doesn't quit match the literary excellence of Code Complete, but it does come close. I would give this book 4.5 stars, if Amazon had the setting for it.