Visual Basic 6 Complete
by Steve Brown

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Book Review: Excellent, inexpensive reference
Summary: 5 Stars

So it's hard to select books on Visual Basic because of the number of offerings.

I recommend this book because it's inexpensive and earth-friendly, being printed on lower-grade, apparently recycled newsprint. Don't worry about the permanence of the paper, for it is likely that Visual Basic 7 will render this book useful as a door stopper, or as an anchor for a very small boat.

You won't curl up with this baby and read it from cover to cover (unless you're even stranger than me.) It is instead a good book to keep at the office. I recently used it to call the Windows Registry API interface and this book worked fine.

The Internet is somewhat overkill for, for example, finding out the syntax of an API call, for the hyperdimensional quality of the Internet, combined with a low span of attention, finds the programmer, who just wanted to find out why his DLL is not registered, scanning www.threeStooges.COM instead. An old fashioned book without much glamour helps to focus on the task at hand, known in some circles as work, and in others as RTFM (Read The Fool Manual.)

One issue is the anonymity of the authors. I do hope that this is not a trend. People like to form an image of the author of a book and SOMEBODY wrote this. If it is a bunch of guys in Belarus, let us know who they are. Everybody deserves his 15 minutes of fame.

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