Visual Basic Design Patterns
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(Is this an example? Microsoft announced that the Windows Vista Operating System will be shipped at least six months later than scheduled at a cost of billions mainly because the first project to create it failed and Microsoft was forced to start over.)
How many of these failures could be prevented if they just looked up the accepted best design in a book?
And speaking of design patterns, they must have used one to pick the authors of the book too. It's a team effort between a Microsoft "insider" (Brad Merrill, an engineer on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft) and an "outsider" (Mark Grand, consultant, educator, author and, of course, programmer). This kind of combination has a history of creating excellent books.
I give this one four stars because it does a great job of being exactly the book that is promised. The writing style is a little, uhhhh, ... obscure ... for the average reader. If you would like a book that is a little more readable, you might try the earlier "Visual Basic Design Patterns" by James Cooper. Click here to read my review of Cooper's book. These authors will never write great fiction or flowing poetry but they get the job done here.
Publisher's Site
About.com Rating
Publisher's Site
From Wiley Technology Publishing
(Is this an example? Microsoft announced that the Windows Vista Operating System will be shipped at least six months later than scheduled at a cost of billions mainly because the first project to create it failed and Microsoft was forced to start over.)
How many of these failures could be prevented if they just looked up the accepted best design in a book?
And speaking of design patterns, they must have used one to pick the authors of the book too. It's a team effort between a Microsoft "insider" (Brad Merrill, an engineer on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft) and an "outsider" (Mark Grand, consultant, educator, author and, of course, programmer). This kind of combination has a history of creating excellent books.
I give this one four stars because it does a great job of being exactly the book that is promised. The writing style is a little, uhhhh, ... obscure ... for the average reader. If you would like a book that is a little more readable, you might try the earlier "Visual Basic Design Patterns" by James Cooper. Click here to read my review of Cooper's book. These authors will never write great fiction or flowing poetry but they get the job done here.
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