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Apr 30th, 2000, 10:03 PM
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I thought I'd start this thread so that everyone can see what's hot and what's not in VB books. I love books, and I love learning from them...
I'll Start, but I'm interested in hearing you're comments
SE Using VB 6
Fairly Good beginners book, still often go back to it as an all over reference.
Ready-to-Run VB Algorithms
Good Book, Lot's on lists, searching, sorting and pathfinding
VB Graphics Programming
Great Book, Real power in graphics, not much on direct x etc but a lot on the way things work, ray tracing, shading, 3d modeling, 2d palette handling, math, and some good graphics API stuff
VB Internet Programming
Another Good book, get's you though the different protocals POP, SMPT etc
Visual Basic Controls
Reasonable, just not really necessary, I thought it would go into componant creation but it's just a big help book for the controls you know, good reference I suppose
Win32 API Programming with VB
Great book, at last, details on BSTR, VarPtr, and how everything works under the hood so you can actually trouble shoot your own API calls, also how to HANDLE GPFs, not just avoid them but catch and process them.
VB Guide to Win32 API (Appleman)
Excellent reference, don't make this your first API book, it's not a light read. use it like a dictionary
Database Programming with VB 6
Good book, also not a light read. you'd want to know a bit about DB access in VB before you bought it. Has all you really need to know on SQL too
Code Complete
Heard a lot about it but with so many books only 1/2 read I keep getting distracted, This book is apparently up there with "Writing Solid Code". I just haven't picked it up yet. Let me know if you've read it...
I look foreward to hearing about more good books and which ones to avoid.
Paul Dwyer 
Network Engineer
Aussie In Tokyo
Using Powerbasic 6 & VB6 SP4 (Please also add your VB Version to your signature!)
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