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Title: Good Book
Review: This is a typical OReilly book. It is starts from the ground up, ignores fancy IDE's and aims at serious programmers. The code examples are solid, and the explanation of the three pillars of object oriented programming was far better than what was in my college programming books. It does have a few downfalls, nothing serious. Firstly, the examples are kind of boring. Who wants to make a file manager? And why is that always the big final project at the end of every VB book?! VB can be much more fun than that. Secondly, the IDE is not explained very well, which is a mixed blessing. I'd prefer more detail on it's nice features, but they are easy enough to figure out for the average developer on his own. The last few chapters are excellent, starting with the ADO.NET elaboration. Overall, an above average learning tool, and an excellent reference especially for those moving from VB 6.0.
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