I purchased this book for a course at community college on VB .Net. This is pretty good book and would be an excellent resource for anyone that wants to learn vb .Net. Currently it is a little out of date but I looked it over a few weeks ago as I was giving it to a friend that wants to learn VB.
As great as this book is as a learning resource it has no value as a reference and no value to an experienced VB programmer.

I purchased this because it was the required text book for a class. I am not at all impressed with it and told the teacher to find a different one for next year. I find her style hard to follow and learn from.

This book is very poor for teaching students new languages and I would never recomend it to fellow teachers. I had more problems with students trying to do problems from the book than any other. The author provides a nice example problem in each lesson, however she does not explain the purpose of any of her steps. Basically, she says copy this code and it will work. When the students went to do the exercises in my online class they had no idea becasue her one limited example did not give then enough practice or explanation of the concepts. The actual content of the book is not bad, just never use the book for an online class. The author needs to revise and have a number of different examples as opposed to just one.

I was forced to buy this book for my App Dev course. Im a begginner so im happy that there are plenty of easy to follow tutorials but im not so happy that there is no reference section. The index is really really really poor. You would think that because of the thousands of instructions in VB that half the book would be an easy to find reference. But no!..Diane makes you trudge through the tutorials step by step slowly building your knowledge. Its frustrating! One plus about this book is the included version of VB.net on 6 cds. I guess i saved money in that respect.