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Title: Not a real VB.NET
Review: I was very disappointed with this book.This is not for real developers and it is a pretty poor introduction into VB.Net world for the beginners: this book is adopted from the previous versions VB to the NET without consideration of completely new features of the new environment. Yes, some of them are mentioned as a "Upgrade Notes", but examples and real step-by-step tutorials are still based on old VB5(!) syntax ( adopted to NET).One of the examples - text file handling: just a mention about StreamReader class and no examples how to use it instead of the old version of FileOpen, that took at least 10 pages.Another fluke - explanation ByREF vs. ByVal - I would say it is misleading - this chapter belongs to VB5/VB6 environment, not to the NET.Those are only 2 examples, I could list much more than that.I definitely do not recommend this book to anyone - nor beginners - nor experienced programmers who were hoping ( like me) to jump into VB.NET world with this book.
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