: The companion CD is often noted for its value, containing the searchable eBook of the text plus Balena’s previous work, Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 . Critiques and Considerations
: The book is praised for its massive scale, covering everything from basic language syntax to advanced topics like threading, reflection, and ADO.NET .
: It is particularly effective for veteran VB6 programmers. Balena provides pragmatic guidance on porting existing code and adopting new object-oriented capabilities like inheritance and polymorphism.