The following reviews are from Visual Basic 2005 How to Program. 3/e (nearing completion), where we have that chapter back from review. If the chapter is not back from review yet, we've included the comments from the sister book Visual C# How to Program, 2/e. The bookwide testimonials are also from the sister book—we’ll have these for the VB book shortly.
Chapter 11 Object Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
"Deitel authors consistently note key tips and concepts of Visual Basic. Very technically astute approach! I enjoyed this chapter. A real treat."—Harlan Brewer, University of Cincinnati
"One of the great strengths of the Deitel approach is their clear, relevant use of examples. Keep them coming!"—Harlan Brewer, University of Cincinnati
"The discussion of object-oriented programming is one of the best available."—Gavin Osborne, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
Chapter 12 Exception Handling (from the sister C# book)
"The chapter on exception handling is one of, if not the best such chapters I have seen in the 50-plus .NET-related books I’ve read and reviewed. It is concise, progressive and feature complete."—Peter Bromberg, Senior Architect Merrill Lynch and C# MVP
"The chapter is very well written. The style and wording used makes the chapter easy to read and understand. The samples are well chosen."—Stochio Goutsev, Independent Consultant, writer and developer and C# MVP
"Well written explanations of how exception handling should be done."—Stacey Yasenka, Software Developer at Hyland Software and C# MVP
"All the essentials are covered and backed by excellent and very demonstrative examples"—Gavin Osborne, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
Chapter 13 GUI Part 1
"Succinct yet comprehensive, with very well designed examples. An excellent reference to basic GUI controls and concepts."—James Huddleston, Independent Consultant