Excellent for beginners!!!

I purchased more advanced titles on VB thinking that I could get up and running quickly. Though books such as "Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2005" by Evangelos Petroutsos are excellent books also, I needed something that I could skim through and get up and running quickly.

If you need is similar to mine, this is the book for you. The explanation are concise, to-the-point, and clear and the examples are simple enough to gain an understanding of Visual Basic. The author touches on all of the major topics such as database connectivity, web connectivity, controls, classes, and even XML.

There is nothing too deep or complicated in this text. It does what the title says it will do; gets you started.

After reading this text I believe that I will be ready to tackle the more complex (and more voluminous) books that are out there.

Other Reviews

• Sample Application poorly debugged
• Excellent for beginners!!!
• Kind of confusing for a beginner.
• Excellent book - well worth the money spent
• None of the project code works