 See larger picture | Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
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Ted Pattison and Joe Hummel
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Featured Customer Reviews  Good .NET book for VB6 or VBA programmers,
January 20, 2007 Don't buy this book,
August 06, 2005
The author tells you to get the book code examples from Barracuda.net web site. The site when accessed defaults to a HTTP 400 error message. I mailed the author asking for the code examples and received no response. DON'T BUY THIS BOOK if you intend to use the code examples, since it is worthless without the them. Unique, Relevant & Well Written,
November 18, 2004
The material Pattison and Hummel cover is relevant to all dotnet developers because it revolves around the building of object oriented component-based applications without emphasis to any particular app framework (whether console, asp.net ∨ windows forms/"smart client" apps). The result is a book that's some what akin to a generic re-usable class (that's a good thing)
Building Apps and Components W/ VB.Net covers the things other books either: ignore, assume you're familiar with, or provide code samples without explaining the context (this observation extends to the MS web application exam too)
Things like:
What a type is
Shared class members VS Instance members
Inheritance
Writing abstract base classes
Scoping considerations
Polymorphism
Interfaces
Event-based programming
Garbage Collection and Object life-time
Values and Objects (Structures Vs Classes)
etc
I concur with the programmer who wrote the following in his review of the book " if you can't explain straight out to someone what boxing or polymorphism means now, you'll be a better programmer for reading this book."
It doesn't get any better.,
October 05, 2004 This book covers the truly essential concepts and techniques for developing applications in VB.Net. It does so with clear short sentences, great and relatively simple examples, appropriate diagrams, no skipping around while learning, and downloadable projects. Enjoy.Jaw Droppingly Good - A Masterpiece of Technical Writing.,
May 08, 2004 I toyed with the idea of writing a really long and detailed review about the content of this book (like so many you see on Amazon), but in a nutshell, this book is a masterpiece, it's what all technical books should aspire to be, comprehensive, thorough, mercifully free of unnecessary flab, and deeply intelligent in its choice of concise and ingenious examples.
It left me with the feeling that I'd been hit by a truck with the word 'clarity' emblazoned on the side.
you won't be a .Net guru afterwards because .Net is Massive!
but...
it is in my view the best 'foundation' book of any kind I've ever had the pleasure to read, read it and then read Balena, Esposito et al, but I can't emphasize enough read this first, it is hearteningly and informatively brilliant. You WILL understand Visual Basic .net after reading it, after that go on to books that exploit specific namespaces like ADO.net, ASP.net, winforms, XML web services etc.. this book is not about any of that it's about the compiler, assemblies , types and the framework, the plumbing! this is anatomy class, surgery should come later, and as these things go, it's 'the business'!
It just goes to show that there are still people in this world who really do care about what they put their name to.
'****New Addition (10 months on, I've read it again)
Upon re-reading the book I was struck but how it was even more useful 2nd time round, but also particularly by how economical and highly informative the comments inside the code are. They are magnificent. I've found it very useful when the author is illustrating a particular point, to show for example, the return value of a method call as a comment to the right. When the main point of the example is 'watch out, this does something you don't expect' the code becomes complete, you can understand it without having to run it. I do think however that you understand code much better if you do run it. The point I'm making is that writing great and very succint comments is an art, and one I think the authors have completely mastered. You can read the book in transit and still make sense of all the examples.
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