Customer Review: If you have an understanding of VB and need a good reference book, this is it. It will save a lot of the time & frustration experienced when searching with MSDN.
Customer Review: I have been a developer ever since VB1 hit the streets, and I have never used a book so much as I do this one. By far the best of it's kind ever.
Customer Review: I've been a big fan of the 1st edition for years and found it very helpful. I use Regular Expressions a lot in Perl and found VBScript's support for RE's a bit lacking (could not extract the submatches). I was pleasantly surprised to find that this capability was added in VBScript 5.5. I bought the... more info
Customer Review: Because Visual Basic 6 remains a very useful programming environment for me. Mr. Balena's style goes way beyond a tutorial through menu creation. He tells us about pratfalls of the Microsoft environment ( while writing for Microsoft! ) and useful ways to work around limitations of the environment.... more info
Customer Review: Gave it one star because zero was not an option. Instruction is terrible. Concepts not
introduced until chapter 8 are used in examples
in chapters 4 or 5. Most of the example code doesn't function properly, if at all, making learning almost impossible. How do you debug something if you... more info
Customer Review: The reference material seems accurate but I have found more detail in the free help file that comes with VBS 5.6. Return values and types and the actual values of the builtin constants, which I didn't find in the book. I apparently overlooked the note that this book was based on VBS 5.5 when I... more info
Customer Review: I have used several books to learn Visual Basic and have used it in writing programs. This book was a real treat. It filled in many gaps that were left by other books and even by college course work. The book is very clear and easy to use. The author goes step-by-step, teaching concepts and working... more info
