Microsoft Visual Basic Design Patterns (Microsoft Professional Series)

By Bill Stamatkis and William Stamatakis

""Microsoft Visual Basic Design Patterns"" focuses on how to capitalize on the powerful object-oriented capabilities of Visual Basic. Specifically, the book introduces and explains how to employ a set... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572319577
• ISBN13: 9781572319578
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Very good book

it's a good book, the author tries to explain how you can implement in VB 6.0 the patterns exposed in "Design Patterns" bible. He also explain the limits of VB, how a "workaround" can be done, the book has many examples, good explained code. I recommend this book to everybody that might need a design pattern solution with VB 6.0. What i wonder, will be there a 2nd edition of this book, updated with the new features of new coming VB 7.0 which (as Microsoft says) will be 100% obect oriented?

Helpful Introduction To Patterns In VB

If you're an intermediate programmer and are looking for that extra knowledge that is getting harder to come by, then I'd say get this book. It helps make your applications more intelligent and cleaner (much like when you discovered how cool linked lists or trees can be).This is one of those books that I read from cover to cover. The book only presents a few design patterns (I wish it had more), but it is enough to give you the ability to look at patterns designed in other languages and adapt them to VB. The author provides a simple and clear working example of each pattern and in some cases presents multiple variations of a pattern.

Clear and well thought out

The first few chapters lay a thorough groundwork on the various aspects of Object Oriented Programming and how it relates to the current version of Visual Basic. The second chapter which guides the user through how Visual Basic actually applies OOP is very clear. The design patterns are given ample explanation and the code samples work. I have a much better idea of how to use design patterns in my day to day programming.

Finally a chance to apply patterns to VB

One of the main reasons that Visual Basic has not received respect from the OO world is that it lacks a few features that the OO purist is used to having, namely Implementation Inheritance and the ability to overload and override functions. While VB 7 is slated for these features, it is nice to have a book that shows you methods around these shortcomings today. Stamatakis' book begins with an intro to both design patterns (Object Oriented methodologies) and the OOP methodology of Visual Basic. He goes over the Visual Basic implementation of OOP and shows methods to get around areas where VB falls short. He then covers the basics of COM necessary to creating distributed (Object based) software. The rest of the book covers individual patterns of VB OO development and includes scenarios for use, ramifications of using along with copious example code (the CD sample code alone is worth the ticket price). The book borrows from Design Patterns (Erich Gamma, et al) and applies the theory to Visual Basic development. If you are serious about developing VB COM components, this book should be part of your library.

VB Steps Up and Out

Visual Basic finally gets treated with the respect it deserves in this thoughtful and well-written work. Drawing on the work of Gamma et. al., Stamatakis offers up VB examples of the more popular design patterns with lucid and clear explanations. The sample code provided is worth the price of the book alone. A must have for any serious VB developer.