I completely agree with Ron F's review on this book. I already owned C and C++ for Dummies, and expected this book to take care of my "Visual" needs... as the title promised. The first part of their book skims over it, and then you never see it again. The authors teach you just enough to get Visual C++ to operate like the non-visual predecessors of long ago. I do feel the authors did do a good job writing the book, only the title is very misleading. I wish I had visited Amazon to read these reviews before buying the book. My bad.