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The author is obviously a very experienced VB Developer and a very honest one at that. This is my 2nd Microsoft Press book and I'm very surprised at the amount of good content and lack of MS propaganda in this book. Francesco Balena clearly explains the do's and don't's of writing VB code and explains and shares benchmark results in varying coding styles.

After writing ASP pages for about 6 months it was a natural progression for me to build ASP Components using VB Compiled DLLs and this book not only helped my coding techniques, but increased the performance of my Web Applications. I have really benefitted from his benchmark comments and attribute the performance gains I have received from them.

He is one of the few authors who keeps your attention with clear and concise sentences rather than hopeless humor and poorly written technical information. This book is definitely a MUST read if you want to get ahead in developing solid VB Applications, Components, Active X Controls and remote Components via DCOM. That's the part that I'm about to get into..cool stuff man!

As a moderately experienced programmer I am always looking for exceptional books which will help in my quest to learn VB. Among the 10 or so I have recently purchased, this book is the best all-around quide to VB6. It covers only the more recent techniques, with a range and depth which is amazing. If I need to find out how to do something, this is usually the only book I open. The code is not polished, and the comments are sometimes a bit odd, but the structure and ideas expressed in code are excellent. Although you probably wont want to drop the code directly into your projects, if you take the time to understand what he is doing, and polish the code yourself, you will have both a valuable code resource and learned the topic well. A couple of other books I recommend are by Lhotka and Moniz. If anyone finds books at this level of excellence, PLEASE say so here!

I am totally new to V.B. and am attempting to write a fairly complex application straight off. EVERY time I have been stuck I have refered to this book and it has so far always helped me out. As a beginner I do not always immediatly grasp the code samples, but after searching through some more basic texts then returning to this book, I have so far always got the results I am aiming for. It is almost as though the author has looked at what i am trying to do, then sat down and written an example or two of how I can accomplish it!

If I could only recommend one VB 6 book, this would be it. Great stuff.