MCSD Visual Basic 6 Desktop Exam Prep (Exam: 70-176)

Author: Michael Ekedahl
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ISBN: 1576102602
Publisher: The Coriolis Group (12 October, 1999)
Sales Rank: 180,984
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 out of 5

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Rating: 4 out of 5
Good book for learning how to write Visual Basic code
This book is one of the only certification books that covers the actual Visual Basic language and how to write code. All other books focuse almost entirely on the specifics of the product and the intrinsic controls. This book is definately meant for those with previous coding experience as the Summary on this page says "Assuming a familiarity with Visual Basic...." The section on object-oriented programming (OOP) is indeed interesting since this is the only certification book that address this topic. OOP is how VB is written in the real world of software.

To summarize, this book addresses real world topics that real developers use all the time. Other guides focus on irrelevant topics that are nover used in a production setting. It seems funny how this book is better than any of the other "Microsoft Certified Professional Approved Study Guides", yet this book does not have that label. perhaps the authors cared less about that label because they knew they were writing a book for real developers, rather than people looking for a quick way to get an MCP title.

Rating: 2 out of 5
No corrections online for this book
Chapter 5 contains a program using the tree view and list view. The program does not work correctly. There were no corrections or FAQ's for this book online, and it took me two weeks to get the author to write back and agree with me that the program does not work correctly. He said he will re-design it for the next version. Sorry, but that is not good enough! I can't wait until the next version to take the exam. To date, I have not received an answer from Coriolis - the publisher - as to why there are no corrections for this book online. Although the book is helpful, and covers the material I need to know, I will stick to O'Reilly and Microsoft Press in the future. They are better about providing corrections to programs that were found after printing. I am actually quite surprised the book was even published with this mistake. Just opening the program and using it for a couple of minutes would have shown that it just doesn't work.

Rating: 4 out of 5
Maybe it is not for VB beginners
This book goes into details to cover MCSD exam #70-176. Maybe it is not for VB beginners, if you are, you may need to read "New Rider's VB 70-176 and 70-175" first. The contents ia good, but the presentation is not as good as the New Rider's book. There are 2 set of VB #70-176 tests on CD-ROM, I like them.

Answer to the "No Answer" review message:You can find the answers to the questions of each chapters on CD-ROM. You need to install Adobe 4.0 fron the CD-ROM to you machine to read/print this answers.



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