g; it is targeted at developers upgrading to Visual Basic 4.0.
Though the main purpose of this CD-ROM is to act as a guided tutorial, it carries more than course material. Besides the tutorial, there are demonstrations, labs, sample applications, a technical reference, glossary, and more.
The technical reference includes what Microsoft refers to as the Knowledge Base -- a growing collection of informative technical notes. It also contains piles of
white papers, mostly taken from the Microsoft Developers network.
You'll need to be running Windows 95 or NT 3.51 or later. If you want to enjoy the audio portions of the tutorials, you'll need an MPC2-compatible sound board. (You can still run the tutorials without a sound board. Simply activate the "closed caption" window; the dialog "floats" over the demonstration and provides scrollable text that describes what's taking place.)
The material is technically nutritious. The animated tutorials are the best multimedia components in the package; in contrast, the movieolas of an expert sitting at his desk and giving high-level explanations of why you would want to leverage this or that new feature of VB 4.0 are largely inert intermissions. Still, considering all the supporting text in the library, the $99.95 price tag makes it a worthwhile investment if you need a helping hand with 32-bit Visual Basic development.
Microsoft'S VB Ph.D. Tutorial
