 | Pure Visual Basic 6 by Dan Fox
Buy new: £21.24 / Used from: £0.01 Superb book. Touches most aspects of Visual Basic, including topics which are hard to find on MSDN like services, ADO, OO. Gives the hints and tips required to solve that problem that's taken all week
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 | Dan Appleman Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API (Book with CD-Rom) by Dan Appleman
Buy used from: £7.85 API's are tamed with this chunky book by your side. It's gives the detail required. Use as a reference rather than a textbook, although the examples are fairly useful they are long. It's heavy!
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 | Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta
Buy used from: £1.03 Useful for those developers who need a basic solution very quickly. Not suitable for indepth solutions, get more experience and then buy a reference book or hire an SQL guru
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 | Sams Teach Yourself UML in 24 Hours by Joseph Schmuller
Buy used from: £0.16 The basics required to get started with your new OO project
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 | VB.NET for Developers (Sams White Book) by Keith Franklin
Buy new: £28.99 / Used from: £4.00 Another straight to the point book. Doesn't lecture, just gives the direction required to find your own way.
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 | Visual Basic "X"! I Didn't Know You Could Do That...(tm) by Matt Tagliaferri
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £0.33 Amusing book, suitable for reading while down the gym! Not a textbook as such, just handy insights into .NET. For those VB6 people who haven't got there yet.
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 | Dan Appleman's Developing ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 6 by Dan Appleman
Buy used from: £4.60 Another one from the man, Dan! Useful addition to the book shelf. Easily catch up on things you have forgotten, such as the event firing sequence of controls and performance tweeks
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 | Advanced Visual Basic 6: Hardcore Programming Techniques (DevelopMentor) by Matthew Curland
Buy used from: £2.19 Has an excellent chapter on Strings and how to make them faster (we all know that VB is a dog in this area). Most of the other stuff if not really for day to day use.
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 | Creating Winning CVs and Applications (Skills Focus) by Kathleen Houston
Buy used from: £0.01 In our line of work everyone needs an up to date CV. This is not American 'resume' biased either which is a rarity. Has quite a few handy examples of different layouts.
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