VB and VBA in a Nutshell: The Languages | 
 enlarge | Author: Paul Lomax
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Amazon.com Review
VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Languages documents the latest version of the world's bestselling rapid application development environment. Paul Lomax's explanation of the language comes in two main parts. First, Lomax explains the structure and syntax of Visual Basic (VB) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programs. He details all the important stuff, including how to work with variables, how to create custom functions, how to create classes, how to handle errors, and how to react to user events. If you're up to speed on general programming concepts and just want to know how to get something done in VB/VBA, you'll find this part of the book especially handy. The second, and largest, part of the book is a language reference in the classic O'Reilly style. Every function, statement, keyword, and miscellaneous bit of code has a clear, complete entry. Each entry includes a statement of syntax, a description of the function's purpose, a quick example of its use, and some tips for using it successfully. The reference documents the language as it exists in VB6. --David Wall
Product Description
The online documentation of VB/VBA language components follows the 80/20 rule: the basic facts that you need to use a language statement are provided in the documentation. But the additional 20 percent that you need to use it effectively is conspicuously absent. To a professional VB/VBA programmer, this missing documentation isn't a luxury; it is a necessity. In VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Language, it's finally available. This book boils down the essentials of the VB and VBA languages into a single volume, including undocumented and little-documented areas essential to everyday programming. The bulk of the book is an alphabetical reference to the statements, procedures, and functions of the VB/VBA language. Each entry includes its syntax, an extended discussion of how the language construct works, programming tips for using the construct effectively, and "gotchas" to avoid in your programming. Regardless of how much experience you have programming with VBA, this is the book you'll pick up time and time again, both as your standard reference guide and as a tool for troubleshooting and identifying programming problems.
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 Buy it. December 18, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you have an understanding of VB and need a good reference book, this is it. It will save a lot of the time & frustration experienced when searching with MSDN.
very handy August 6, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
this comes in very handy if you are developing with vb/vba on a daily basis. much quicker than using the mostly confusing and badly organized MSDN online references...
The best learning tool for beginners March 3, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's hard to believe that this book was originally published in 1998. I can't think of any VB programmer I've met that did not have one of these on their desk. This book is meant to be used like a dictionary for VB and VBA. The format is brilliant and the concepts in it are as valid today as they were in 1998.
 Absolutely Great October 11, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Well, although there are still many zealous VB 6.0 coders out there, we all know the former language has been superseded by VB.NET, which is basically completely unrelated whatsoever to VB 6.0.
With that being said, I don't plan on becoming a VB coder anyhow, and don't do a lot of programming Web applications anyway. However, there is A LOT that can be accomplished in the Visual Basic language and I find learning VB as a really nice leisure time in between classes, learning hardcore material, or just wanting to enter new territory.
For anyone else who reviews this, please recognize what this book is (and perhaps what it is not): this is a "NUTSHELL" title -- It is not meant to be a defintive tutorial. In fact, the author blatantly states in the preface that the people who will get the most out of this book are those who already have knowledge of VB and are looking for something to refresh their memories or use as a desktop reference.
Now the latter phrase, desktop reference, is exactly what this book is. While the book can be divided into an 'explanation' section and a 'reference' section, the explanations are NOT complete, and are really just broad overviews of the particular subjects a section covers.
I know: I mentioned that I wasn't a VB coder (although I'm not a novice either), and yes, I purchased this book knowing this. I don't recommend this approach for everyone, but this works for me. I've learned a lot from this reference, and I'm able to implement a lot of what I've read. The reference section is excellent. So yes, I've used this as a "bootleg textbook".
Other than the fact that good books on VB 6.0 are a little hard to come by nowadays (everything's VB.NET), this is a good start for someone who doesn't want their hands held the whole way and are okay with starting off "in the middle of nowhere" and trekking through unknown territory. One of O'Reilly's best.
From a beginner July 20, 2005
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have only just started to learn about VB and VBA and as an absolute beginner, I found so far at any rate, this book very easy to absorb and understand. It also gioves a good depth of what VB and VBA is all about. My work has taken me away from home (and frm my computer) for many weeks but the book always goes with me and I am very pleased to have purchased it. I would suggest it is very good for anyone else wishing to consider buying it for the knowledge and style of how the author imparts that knowledge.
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