Visual Basic 2015 in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

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.

The syntax is most important and a textbook with code examples help illustrate how to write the code statements.Microsoft is trying to make everyone learn OOP programming. I have been coding since 1965 any have developed my own methods that accomplish 70% of what OOP's accomplishes. In my experience I have learned and used 13 different languages and have taught programming in colleges and I personally think OOP is too hard to teach and don't see any real advantages. The most important things are coding syntax and how to develop the algorithms.

This was used as a textbook and like most textbooks that you're told to get our professor didn't utilize it much. But since I paid good money for it I was intent on reading along with what was being taught in class. It is an easy read for a "technical" book and gives examples. I found it very helpful for when the professor would fly through something in class.

Highly recommend to a newbie wanting to learn VB. Very precise explanations, with hands on practice creating/managing objects, setting properties, and wring code for declaring objects/ writing methods/properties. I am only a few chapters in, but have learned more than a university on line class I am taking on the same subject.

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

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.

I like the way this book presents the material. I'm working through it, and though I am quite familiar with many of the concepts, the presentation does fill in some missing bits of knowledge that I can use.I do suggest running Visual Studio at the same time, and doing the steps as the author recommends. It is a great way to reinforce what is being presented.

Unlike others which teaches you how to do programming from the command prompt...this actually allows you to make an actual project which works as an app.

As a long-term developer of other languages, I found this a great book for quickly picking up the basics of this latest iteration of VB.Net.I'd spent 2-3 years in the 1990's developing a number of projects using early versions of Visual Basic, but the language and capabilities have changed enormously now that VB is built to leverage the .Net platform.The text in this guide flows at a nice pace either for beginners, or for developers of other languages looking to adapt their skills - with enough depth to cover the foundation concepts comfortably.Whilst the book doesn't attempt to cover every topic in huge detail, the provided information is a great starting point and did provide the spark that prompted some searching online to fill out my knowledge.This book wont make you a master, but it is a great way to ease yourself into being productive with VB 2015 in the shortest possible time.

Overall, this is a good, general introduction to Visual Basic. It provides enough explanation of code with examples to get you started. Some of the more advanced programming features towards the end begin to show the capability of this programming language. If you are a complete beginner I would recommend working through the whole book at your own pace. If you already know some Visual Basic then this is a handy reference or to dip into, as needed.

I have not been programming for several years and decided to get back into Visual Basic. The first book I used was Visual Basic 5 in 21 days. The current book I have bought is not as good and I am not finding the programming side very informative. It is great for laying out buttons, labels etc. but that's about it. Not happy at all with this book.

Not a bad book, but coverage a bit sketchy.

Very informative book, however for the beginners only. If you are starting coding in Visual Basic (and have no other experience with programing languages) - this is a right book for you.