Tim Patrick's Programming Visual Basic 2008

It's a fun read!

Here's another review hot on the heels of my review of Murach's latest VB.NET book (below). I thought these two books were an interesting contrast to each other.

• Patrick:
  It's full of humor and interesting things about Visual Basic.

• Murach:
  It's a structured and serious book focused on the goal of learning!

• Patrick:
  It packs an amazing amount of information into a reasonably sized book.

• Murach:
  It's sized to allow a comprehensive and thorough coverage of the subject.

• Patrick:
  It's written by a genuine VB guru and published by O'Reilly - a major technical book publisher.

• Murach:
  Murach is a highly specialized publisher of just one kind of book: books that help you learn software. Their use of salaried in-house writers give Murach the ability to publish books that are consistent and quality controlled

In fact, there are only two things that are the same:

1. They both use a single project that's developed throughout the book to illustrate the programming concepts.
2. They're both focused on VB.NET 2008.