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Anne Boehm has over 30 years of experience as an enterprise programmer. She got started with Visual Basic in the days of VB5, and has been programming on .NET since its inception. In the past 5 years, she s added C# to her programming repertoire, and she's authored or co-authored books on Visual Basic, C#, ADO.NET, and ASP.NET.
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- Paperback: 854 pages
- Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates; 4th edition (September 13, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1890774588
- ISBN-13: 978-1890774585
- Product Dimensions: 1.8 x 7.9 x 9.8 inches
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I like Murach's books more than the programming series of most other publishers, because of their hands-on style. Other books contain verbose texts, many of which have an uncanny similarity to Microsoft help texts, which tend to be written in a rather lawyerly style, followed by clunky examples, which bury a selected language feature within 50 or 100 lines of other code. Murach's books provide a healthy proportion of down-to-earth explanations combined with simple, short examples showing the correct syntax. Text on the left page, code examples on the right page.
But Murach's Visual Basic 2010 is a disappointment. I have not read earlier editions like "Murach's Visual Basic 2008" or 2005, but to me, it looks as if most of the book has not been updated to include many of the new features that have been introduced with VS/VB2008, to say nothing of VS/VB2010.
2010 features that are not touched by the author:
parallel programming (in my opinion, THE new feature for an IT world that increasingly relies on multicore systems), surprisingly not even the older VB2005/2008 feature of Threads is covered; no multiline lambda expressions and lambdas in general, covariance+contravariance. Nothing on delegates, Regex string manipulation, COM. LINQ, XML (VB2008) and the With collection initializers are covered, though.
The book is still very useful as an introduction and reference for the VB language features known since VB2005, but in order to make it clear that its 800 pages will hardly provide new insights to non-novice VB developers, a more appropriate title or at least subtitle might have been: "Beginner's Visual Basic 2005 plus selected VB2008 features such as LINQ". As such, I'd recommend it to every VB novice.
Is my view biased?