Murach's Visual Basic 2015 6th ed. Edition

The book covers almost all of the features of VB. It's the best VB book out there.

This is my first experience with a Murach's book, but I really enjoy this book. It functions really well as a reference book, but one can also read it like any other book since it has projects that it walks you through as the chapters progress. I've been programming for several years, but have never really gotten deep into .Net before now, so I use this book at my job fairly often. Never lets me down! I do wish it was a bit longer (funny to say that about a 1,000+ page book) and that it covered content such as multithreading and similar things, but it's definitely still a 5 out of 5 book.

As an experienced programmer but new to Visual Basic, I consider this to be an excellent training resource and reference. It uses a topic-based approach that brings related concepts and functions together. Throughout the book, you’ll find descriptions of a topic on the left page, then on the right page you’ll find bullet-point summaries, screen shots, syntax and examples of code from actual applications. It’s self-paced and includes excellent training exercises.Revision: I originally rated this 5 stars, but the more I used it the more limitations I discovered. For example, the applications I develop require data/line graphics and printing capability. Not in the book. If you specialize in database applications, you're good; otherwise, you'll have to find other resources.

An excellent reference...comprehensive. It's a big book, kinda spendy, but indispensable for anybody that does a serious VB 2015 programming.

I highly recommend this book. I have taken some video courses on Visual Basic, and I have learned some things from them, but this book really feels in the gaps. I like the structure of the book with the reading on the left side and the code examples and summary details on the right side. Anyone who is new to programming should consider this book.

I'm about 1/3 of the way through this book. I'm a novice (hobbyist) VB programmer and have found this book very helpful. I've picked up several tips and it is also a good reference book. Very Satisfied!

Difficult to study and if my instructor didn't enforce me to buy it I wouldn't buy it. the font is so small and all the explanation on one page and all the examples on the next page, there is not an explanation followed by example and the whole book is in black and white so you can understand anything and they wasted empty pages and huge empty margins on the sides of each page no wonder it's cheap.

I just started this book but I am finding it awesome, it really breaks things down for the beginner and makes VB easy to understand and the things you already understand you can skim through without getting lost.