Beginning Visual Basic 2010

I have not really had time to really use this book. However, it seems like a good one.

This Book is a good starting point for someone new to .NET programming that has had programming before.It seems that all of these 'how to program' books are lacking when it comes to the printer. Aside from sending "Hello World" to the printer the book says 'see microsoft's web site for more detailed examples'. I guess only MicroSoft knows how to make nice looking useful printouts on the printer. My gripe is that the printout is what the end result is. If you can do everything except print you're wasting time.If you need help on pulling data from a data base this book is pretty good.

I am an experienced program in main frames with no knowledge in VB. This book was my first on the subject and it is a good guide. After a few weeks, and with the help of MS MSDM, I can create windows and write procedures to handle them.This book is very useful for a beginner, but only for a start, if you want to expand your skills in VB or you have some a previous experience this book is not for you.

This is NOT a beginners book as the title states. It may be good for a programmer very experienced in a different language to transition. You have to know programming beforehand. I even read another book before this one ("Sam's Teach Yourself Visual Basic in 24 Hours" - a much better book) yet I'm lost throughout most of this one.Additionally, it's very poorly organized. While introducing one topic it adds half a dozen others that will either be discussed in a later chapter or not explained at all. I understand forward references need to be done at times. But this book takes it to a confusing extreme. It will have flipping around three different chapters at times trying to understand the current topic. Take, for example, Chapter 10 "Debugging and Error Handling". Debugging, a pretty important topic for any aspiring programmer, uses the "Generics" class, "IDisposable", and List of T none of which are discussed in depth (why introduce that in a chapter devoted to debugging tools?). Every chapter is all over the place with references to future chapters and details about past chapters that weren't originally included. You work through the "Try It Out" sections not knowing what's relevant and what's irrelevant to the exercise. Vague explanations are given only AFTER the "Try It Out"s and leave you scratching your head over what was necessary for the topic and what was an unnecessary aside that may or may not be discussed later.End of Chapter Exercises quizes you with questions without providing the answers which makes it a tedious, laborious task to backpedal through all the confusing and irrelevant codes. The book could easily lose 200 pages and be more helpful. It attempts to cover too much without covering anything really well. Jack of all trades master of none.In short, It's as if the authors want to show off their prowess more than explain things in a way a beginner/intermediate might understand.

Excellent and fast shipment. Got this order after 1 week from usa to india..super..

Great, like all Wrox pubs.

Yuk. This book is really terrible for anyone who wants to learn VB programming. Too little explanation, and a really horrible excuse for an index.If you want something far better that will also serve as a reference for future use, try  Murach's Visual Basic 2010 .

Great book arrived I excellent condition.

I find this book typical with a lot of these beginners books. That is they spoon feed the learner in such a way, that they miss important parts out, and expect the learner to take something on blind faith, without teaching what things mean.I can appreciate that this is for a beginner, and I found it quite surprising, being an embedded C programmer,that I am having to answer questions from my daughter about such things.To give an example, the MessageBox takes a number of parameters, which are not explained, leaving the curious to dig around for an explanation of what all these things do. This without giving even the slightest hint or reference to somewhere within the book, to find this information.On the plus side, with another book for reference, this book looks to be a good introduction to programming, with little waffle and leads the learner into understanding what the net framework is about.Apart from the criticism above, I have found this to be quite decent in its approach to teaching the beginner, but it does suffer from the usual approach of missing key information out, by either explaining things fully, or giving references which can be read by the learner to understand what is going on.

I can't say how pleased I am with this book! It is a great start into vb 2010 programming. It starts of with the basics and covers them all well. It even goes into WPF(which is a new technology but, I think, is going to be huge). It will give you a great grounding into the basics and explain them in very plain English (something which I have found profoundly lacking in previous Wrox books).After this you will need to get another book to learn more advanced topics(delegates, WCF etc) but with the firm grounding that this book gives you, that should not be a problem.Great beginners book, well explained and easy to read/understand. Thanks very much!

but gave up on this programming language and went more php/java based as its alot easier for me.. just my trhoughts tho

Excellent product for what was required

good