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 14 GUI Part 2
"The selection of controls is excellent and the detailed descriptions of their function and usage is superb. Anyone who wants to develop sophisticated GUIs can learn how from this even if they have never done so before."—James Huddleston, Independent Consultant
"This chapter is a great overview of the controls covered. It’s enough information to start using the controls without getting bogged down in advanced scenarios."—Eric Gruber, Microsoft
"I like the fact that the GUI concepts presented are relevant to current industry usage and typically used properties are explained and exampled."—Karen Arlien, Bismarck State College
Chapter 17 Graphics and Multimedia
"This chapter is a good overall view of how to do most of the things a VB user would want to do with GDI+. It also explains from the start how to correctly do graphics using the OnPaint event and calling invalidate on a region."—Eric Gruber Microsoft
Chapter 18 Files and Streams (from the sister C# book)
"A very strong chapter on file processing that includes an excellent section on object serialization."—Gavin Osborne, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
"Fascinating chapter. Clear, well-written."—Harlan Brewer, University of Cincinnati
Chapter 19 XML (from the sister C# book)
"Superb. This is the most comprehensive yet concise introduction to XML that I’ve seen, a wonderful resource for any C# programmer."—James Huddleston, Independent Consultant