Visual Basic 6: Design, Specification, and Objects

By Billy S. Hollis

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130850845
• ISBN13: 9780130850843
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Pearson P T R
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Read This First - Then Charge!

One of the best purchases I ever made. This book is an invaluable resource for me. It points you in the right direction for developing VB apps and objects by helping you to draw on your experiences, intellect and insight and offering his. It exposes weaknesses with VB developers and offers some real, workable, practical solutions.Please Read This First. The tackle you next project with renewed vigor, increased insight and I'm sure, a greater probability of success.

Interesting, good read

Interesting combination of analysis and design principles & methods with object oriented programming with VB. Not a detailed look at any of these three topics, but this is a well written and easy read and has some really helpful tips. The author states that he is using the 80/20 rule in covering the 20% of the material that helps with 80% of the needs. I highly recommend this book for someone just getting into programming VB, looking for some more formal methods of approaching their work.

Felt like a long conversation with an expert

I have never seen a technical book this easy to read. Nice conversational tone, and the material just flowed well. Several times I had a question in my mind and the next paragraph answered it. It was like having a conversation with someone really experienced.I got several tips to start using immediately - very practical stuff. I also had my manager read several chapters because this book explains why definition and design are important and save money in the long run. The object material is good, but basic, and doesn't go far into 3 tier. If you want more details on objects, something like Lotkha's book on Business Objects in VB is a good next step. But for analysis, design, and fundamentals of objects, this book stands out.

Extremely Practical

This book gives you a practical step by step guide to designing, specifying, and implementing a VB application. Whilst I have been a programmer since 1969 and have used various methodologies in the mainframe area, I had not come across a succinct, practical and easy to follow one for the VB environment until now. Great book!

Easy to read and very useful

I found the book easy to read, and got some pretty good ideas. The author doesn't get too long-winded in explaining things. You get a lot of benefit for your time investment.You can tell the author has actually done this stuff - it sounds like somebody who's been there. My only complaint - the book had some good examples, but I wished there were more of them.