Title: What a disappointment!
Product review: This book came to me so highly recommended by people I truly respect, but as a developer whose job it is to deliver software solutions on time and within budget, it's hardly useful at all.The folks who touted this book so highly to me are all C programmers who seem to view VB as a necessary evil for occasional RAD projects, but I'm not in that school of thought.The real title of this book should have been "How to Trick VB into behaving more like C by writing code that's just as excruciating." Sure, you can do that, but then you miss the main advantage of VB over C, namely the capability to deliver maintainable software to your client in a fraction of the time (and cost) it would take for some oh-so-perfect system to be written in C.Save this for the super hard-core projects that can't be handled any other way. And while you're at it, if you're going to keep things so complicated, you might as well just write in C.
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