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Visual Basic 2019 Handbook: A Concise Guide to VB2019 Programming
Visual Basic 2019 handbook is authored by Dr. Liew, the webmaster of popular online Visual Basic Tutorial, vbtutor.net. This book is a concise guide to learning Visual Basic 2019 for beginners. It has been written to complement our free online Visual Basic 2019 tutorial with much more content. It is also an excellent reference text for high school or college-level computer science courses. Reading this book will allow you Understand the basic concepts of Visual Basic 2019 programmingCreate your own Visual Basic 2019 applications from scratchGet inspiration from a variety of interesting sample programsModify the code samples easily to suit your needsLearn how to package and distribute your applications
332 pages, Paperback
Published December 3, 2020
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June 2, 2023
Visual Basic is a language that is losing it's popularity. I actually am planning on spending more time on Visual C#/Visual C++ for Windows Forms type apps going forward. But, the lack of books about Visual Basic at all, and especially other than the $200+ textbook level, so I was happy to see this one.
The book isn't terrible, especially since I don't have too much experience with the Visual Studio/GUI/Form aspect of VB; I do, however, have a fair bit of VBA experience (and Forms in the Excel/VBA environment) which I hoped to leverage. Ultimately, the book is good for beginner-to-intermediate use of the Forms and Controls, and a high-level overview of the syntax. If you have experience in other languages, you'll find the coverage of the code/syntax to be underwhelming, and not moving past the basics.
Where I was especially disappointed, though, is that there are a lot of strange rules and properties about the actual UI design of the form (for instance if you have a 500px window, pixel 250 is not in the middle. By experience, if you want the 500px width window, make it about 15px wider.) This is more of a flaw in the language than in the book (and why there isn't an easy "center this button" feature). But given that the author has a fair bit of experience in the language, it seems like something they should've covered.
The book isn't terrible, especially since I don't have too much experience with the Visual Studio/GUI/Form aspect of VB; I do, however, have a fair bit of VBA experience (and Forms in the Excel/VBA environment) which I hoped to leverage. Ultimately, the book is good for beginner-to-intermediate use of the Forms and Controls, and a high-level overview of the syntax. If you have experience in other languages, you'll find the coverage of the code/syntax to be underwhelming, and not moving past the basics.
Where I was especially disappointed, though, is that there are a lot of strange rules and properties about the actual UI design of the form (for instance if you have a 500px window, pixel 250 is not in the middle. By experience, if you want the 500px width window, make it about 15px wider.) This is more of a flaw in the language than in the book (and why there isn't an easy "center this button" feature). But given that the author has a fair bit of experience in the language, it seems like something they should've covered.
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