Teach & Learn Microsoft Visual Basic with 26 Hands-on Projects Paperback – Big Book

I purchased this book in the hope that it actually contained 26 half decent VB.net projects that I could create myself. In the past, this has always been a good way of learning for me and I had hoped this book would deliver what its title suggested it would. Sadly, that was not the case.Not only are the examples exceedingly poor, there is no explanation of how to create the form and what objects need to be placed there, and the writer has taken the lazy approach in leaving all the object names at their defaults (Label1, Label2, Command1, Command2 etc.) and not bothered to following proper naming conventions.The code is also very dated so offering up commands that have since been replaced with newer ones. Some now cause errors in the latest version of Visual Studio and you have to search the internet to find how to correct them.The one redeeming feature was an appendix of commands at the back, but even this is next to useless as it does not give any details other than the command and a brief description of what it does. There are no details of the syntax, options or examples given. The Fomat String function, as an example, simply tells you that it “Returns a string formatted to instructions contained in the format String expression”, but then does not say what those instructions are, or give any options or even a single example.This book is about as bad as any book on this subject can get. Its not worth the paper its printed on. Be warned and look elsewhere as there are some really excellent books on vb.net for not a lot more money.

Good collection of samples with code included

Good!