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Visual Basic 6 Training & Books
There are many VB books out there that were written many years ago for VB version 3 or 4 and then added to a little each year. You might sleep through 500 pages to find one little helpful hint. Therefore we have tried to narrow our list down to the books that definitely are worth it. Two of the books listed below are for polishing your code. The algorithm book will save you days (or weeks) of programming time. The ADO book, although difficult, is the best reference I have found on ADO programming.
 Ready-to-Run Visual
Basic Algorithms, Second Edition
by Rod Stephens, Paperback - 416 pages 2nd Bk&CDROM edition (April 6, 1998)
Linked lists, stacks, queues, sparse arrays, recursion, trees, bubble sort, binary search, hashing. If you're the kind of person that likes to redevelop this code every time you need it -- you're a "sicko" -- so get out of here! Most programmers buy this book (CD-ROM included) paste the example code, tweak it a little, and get on with their lives. Life is too short trying to reinvent everything covered in this book. It will pay for itself the first time you have to include these in your code. If you don't know what these things are -- you better buy the book.
 Visual Basic 6- Error Coding and Layering
by Tyson Gill, Paperback - 260 pages 1 edition (December 15, 1999)
Want to go from a "B" programmer to an "A" programmer? Start looking at topics such this and the next book.
Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic by James D. Foxall, Paperback Bk&Cd-Rom edition (February 2000)
Do you want to think and write code like a professional programmer?
 ADO Examples and Best Practices
by William R. Vaughn, Paperback - 425 pages Bk&Cd Rom edition (May 2000)
ADO is not easy to understand and neither is this book. However, if you want to be a serious VB programmer then you need to be using ADO and you need this book. The more I read this book the more I love it. We have some applications where we have to read an Access database and then create a file that is much more compact. This book tells you how to disassociate the recordset from the connection and then save the recordset in ADTG and XML formats. This book is not for "pansies" because it has a lot more technical information per page than most books. Buy it, stick with it, reread it multiple times, eventually you'll get it, and love it.
by Dan Petit, Paperback - 438 pages 1st edition (December 17, 1999) From the back cover -- This book explores Visual Basic's advanced capabilities and shows how VB provides solutions to the complex development challenges for corporations. Drawing on his extensive experience, the author dispels many misconceptions about the Visual Basic language, highlights its object-oriented capabilities, points out common programming mistakes, and offers practical tips for real-world programming success.
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