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Title: Much chaff; very little wheat.
Review: If C/C++ programmers need any more reasons to dislike VB, this book will provide one. It's incredibly wordy and repetitious - I really believe the author was paid by the word. I've read introductory books on other languages with no complaints, but this is different. I don't need to be repeatedly re-assured that setting property values in design mode means I'm a real programmer. Wading through page after page of BS trying to glean bits of truly useful information got so frustrating that I finally gave up and stuck with on-line docs.I really don't understand how this book came to be so raved over. Petzold it's not, that's for sure. I can't help but think that if the author had stuck strictly to disseminating technical information in a concise manner ( a la Petzold, for instance) that the information in these 800+ pages could have been contained in a 20 page pamphlet.
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