Can anybody recommend a decent book

[Brian56]

Can anybody recommend a decent book for a newbie to VB6. I dont need a complete beginners book. I have lots of OOP experience in other languages.

 

[briancoats]

I like (and use) the Visual Bacis 6 Black Book. A lot like the Visual Basic Bible, though I think it is ste up better. I was looking for a book that would list all the built in functions and discuss them but couldn't find one. I bet (or rather, I KNOW) that there are tons of functions that I have no idea are out there. Good Luck.

 

[zemp]

You can go to

http://www.visualbasicbooks.com

and read some book reviews and even some sample chapters to give you some insight into how the book is written.

Personally I have always liked the Wrox books (the red ones).

Thanks and Good Luck!

zemp

 

[johnwm]

You might try this:

http://goforit.unk.edu/vb6/default.htm

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[Brian56]

thanks to you all

 

[Rougy]

Visual Basic 6 Complete, 1000 pages for $19.99 - a good reference.

But honestly, the most help I've gotten for complex stuff (ftp, e-mailing, writing to Excel or Word, etc.) was from forums like this.

The book is nice to have for looking up stuff, but these forums are pure gold.

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[TheVampire]

I found Visual Basic 6 Complete to be not so complete. Too much was about the word and access objects. It's OK, but not great.

Here's a link to my review of Programming VB6 by Fransisco Balena.

thread222-303518 this helps,

Robert

 

[PockyBum522]

I like Sams Learn Visual Basic 6 in 21 days, witten in something you can understand and very complete.

 

[billybobk]

My vote goes to "Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0" by Francesco Balena. It's all in there!

--Bill

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
--Albert Einstein

 

[MasterSword]

I agree with Brian56...try the Visual Basic Black Book, (or, just get them both: Black & Blue.) The Visual Basic Blue Book is pretty sweet, too.

Those are great books, but I honestly, (even 4 years out of college,) still refer back to my Advanced Visual Basic 6 books from school. Probably the most helpful on the whole.

 

[billybobk]

MasterSword: could you please tell us more about the Advanced Visual Basic 6 books? Is that by Curland?

--Bill

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
--Albert Einstein

 

[MasterSword]

Sure thing:

Advanced Visual Basic 6 2nd Edition
by Kip Irvine & Kaiyang Liang, 1999

Scoff/Jones Inc., Publishers
scotjones2@aol.com

It really is a helpful book...it's never left my desk.

 

[Brian56]

Advanced Visual Basic 6 2nd Edition

Looks great. Just ordered it on Amazon.

 

[MasterSword]

That's the one! I hope you like it!