Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Developers Workshop

by John Clark Craig and Jeff Webb

A resource that provides the tools to build powerful, full-featured graphical applications for the Windows 95 and NT operating systems. Presents examples of how to build 32-bit applications for the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572314362
• ISBN13: 9781572314368
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 725 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good book to establish VB knowledge

When I started to move to a VB 5 project, I asked three people for book recommendation. This is the only one they all memtioned. I got this book to work on the project and igave me very good help to develop my programming skills. It has enough topics (perhaps not allof the important topics) for people doesn't have much experience with Vb and want to have some example and smaple codes as reference. When you have more experience, this may not be the book as good as before, but still very nice to keep it in hand for those topics you want to refresh or never touched before.

Good for Developers!

I have been a certified MCSD regarding Visual Basic, this book helped me lot in passing the exam, at the same time, I am still using this book for the good examples given in it. Again Microsoft wouldn't publish a book that they think wouldn't be useful.

VB 5.0 Book of Examples

This book is wonderful for the intermediate level VB programmer who is looking for new ideas.The only problem I have with this book is the misleading information in the title and on the cover. But hey, if you didn't flip through the book first, "What the Hell were you thinking?"Remember this is a book of examples - nothing more, nothing less.

Excellent Book For Beginners !

This is a really good book for beginners to Advanced Users. A bit shallow on every topic but touches on classes,error handling, data access object and good graphic routines. do not attempt to use it as reference for how to implement every type of control in your tool box though. Harish P

Excellent reference for a myriad of key topics.

"Developer's Workshop" is an excellent reference that belongs on every Visual Basic programmers' bookshelf. It is a collection of key Visual Basic programming topics. You will enjoy your initial skim through it. I will be surprised if you don't find at least a half-dozen tips you never thought about before. It was hard to decide which topic in the table of contents to browse first. At the risk of sounding like a nerd, it was a fun read. You will pick it up frequently when you ask yourself "How do I ...?" -- the theme of this book. "Developer's Workshop" does an excellent job of pointing out how to use features properly and professionally, and explains what to watch out for to avoid future problems. This book has no VB tutorial, and it has no in-depth topics (e.g., on object-oriented programming, etc.). "Developer's Workshop" is as organized as a collection of "How Do I ...?" topics can reasonably be. The topical discussions are concise and complete with examples. For C++ programmers, this book is similar in coverage to Plum/Saks' "C++ Programming Guidelines" and Meyers' "Effective C++" (though less detailed in its explanations of each topic).