Visual Basic 2015 in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

I have been programming since 1968. I coded in FORTRAN, COBOL, T-SQL, Access VBA, VB6 and limited Visual Studio VB.NET and I needed a book to teach me the ins and outs of VB2015 because I am targeting all my future code in that environment. This is a basic level book that I recommend everyone to read before diving deeply into Visual Studio VB.NET. The examples are excellent and the explanations assume nothing. I am excited to read the next book on VB2015 (Beginning Visual Basic by Newsome), which dives a little deeper. Then I should finish my training with Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed by Del Sole). I'll review those two when I finish them. Foxall is a great communicator and teacher. Don't pass-up reading this masterpiece. Hour 21 cost me an hour or two trying to figure out why there was a problem. Firstly, he refers to an MDB (which is an Access extension) when he really meant an MDF (a SqlServer extension). After that, he refers to the table as "Contacts" in his code sample when he meant "tblContacts".. These were the ONLY errors in the book. I also had to convert his Sql2014 MDF to Sql2016. - no great shakes.

I searched online for some programming books for Visual Basic 2022 and didn’t see one I wanted. A check for new books at a local bookstore in September 2022 showed that Visual Basic in 24 Hours was on the shelf. I already have this book so I decided to use it. With the upgrade to Visual Basic 2022 some differences are 1) can create forms using NET 4.5 or NET 6.0, use NET 6.0, 2) Windows 11 uses Start | All Apps (p552), 3) Windows 11 uses Settings | Apps | App & Features (p553), 4) sending email using a gmail account described in hour 23 didn’t work since Google implemented “Less Secure App Access” and in May, 2022 implemented tighter restrictions, 5) the line continuation character (p77, p302, p464) is sometimes required, 6) the shortcut keys will sometimes be different such as CTRL ALT I to open immediate window (p342, 351), 7) debug.print and debug.writeline send output to output (not immediate) window (p351-356), 8) if title is omitted, then title is not name of project but blank (p402)., 9) on the fly debugging didn’t work (p352), 10) didn’t see location in tabbed dialog boxes (p197), 11) no link for view detail (p354), 12) Visual Basic 17.3.4 has a bug. The easiest way to get around the bug is not to rename Form1 as described on page 4, 9, 20, 52… 13) my default font size was too big for the buttons (change to font size 6). All in all the book is well written and reasonably current on how to build desktop applications. It is written for beginners.

I am a career IBM mainframe applications programmer who is ramping up to reenter the IT profession. This was a very good "baby steps" kind of book to break into Visual Studio 2015 and object oriented programming. The combination of screen shots and step by step instructions was very helpful. If anyone cares, I went through the book on a Windows 10 Professional machine using SQL Server 2014 and Visual Studio Community 2015. Make sure to go to James Foxall's web site and read the errata before starting the book. That may save you a bit of time. Sadly, the book breaks down badly in Chapter 21, working with a database. The reader is instructed to download the contacts.mdb database from James Foxall's web site, and you'd think it would be in the downloads for this book, but it isn't. In fact, if you go to Mr. Foxall's site and look at the discussion threads, problems locating sample databases mentioned in his books seems to be a recurring theme. I never did find contacts.mdb, so I downloaded the Adventure Works sample SQL database and adapted the material in chapter 21 to use it. Just recently, a poster at Mr. Foxall's site said he located the contacts.mdb database in the downloads for the 2008 version of this book. Too late for me. This book will get you at least comfortable with the Visual Studio 2015 IDE, but just scratch the surface of it's functionality. And, when you finish the book you likely won't be able to code anything that anyone would actually want to use, but you'll be on you way. After this book I went through Beginning Visual Basic 2015 by Bryan Newsome, that book covers a lot of the same material but in a very different way. This book starts with the IDE and works into the code, and Newsome's book starts with the code and works out into the IDE. Two books are often better than one, and I'm glad I went through them both. Between the two, I gained the confidence to make the leap to C#, which I'm learning now.

It was a great book. I learned a lot about Visual Basic, and the material was presented in a clear, concise, non-intimidating way. With a lot of programming books I've bought start out with a lot of technical jargon, which I don't mind personally, but I find that it can confuse new users. This book starts from the bare basics and keeps technical jargon to a minimum at the beginning and progresses as you move forward in the book.The author provides all of the project files on his site which was a huge bonus for me. All in all, this was a great book. 5 stars.

Hi there, A very good book for absolute beginners. I am a Computer Engineer who finished his studies in ... 1987 (the good old times of Borland and Turbo Pascal) Had been out of the programming world since 1995 or so, and I needed to do a job in UI for Windows. So I decided I will delve in .NET and chose VB over C# (thinking the syntax of VB protects the coder better). This book was recommended by Derek Banas in a excellent VB beginners course on YouTube. I am very glad I bought it. I quickly skim thourgh some pages (general programming concepts), and mostly get quick answers to all my uqestions in the VB environment. Hope my experience helps. Roberto

simple easy to follow instructions that actually work and that teach you basic things that you wanted to learn without a lot of crap you had no interest in learning as a beginer.

All good

Für Anfänger geeignet, da jeder Schritt detailliert erklärt wird. Ich bin zwar kein blutiger Anfänger, habe beim Durcharbeiten des Buches noch manches dazugelernt.

Exactly as described in good condition when it arrived.

Un libro adatto ai principianti, ma con un limite importantissimo, tutti gli esempi sono realizzati con una tecnologia che non è più aggiornata, quella del "windows form", ultimo aggiornamento nel 2010. Attualmente la tecnologia che va studiata è quella WPF, e poichè le differenze non sono poche, rischiate di dover studiare 2 volte gli stessi argomenti. Per non parlare di "windows universale" anche questa tecnologia non viene neanche menzionata. L'autore secondo me ha rispolverato un libro del 2010 aggiornandolo un po' e presentandolo come attuale. NON CONSIGLIATO