I don't know, I like Christmas and I like explosions, so why not put them together?
Just in time for the holidays, I'm giving away NEW copies of the following books:
1: Microsoft Office Programming: A Guide for Experienced Developers
By using the same back-end macro programming language, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Microsoft Office applications allow users to easily transfer their VBA programming skills from one Office product to another. A developer skilled at using VBA to program Access can quickly learn to program Word or Excel. Better still, VBA is a fairly complete subset of Visual Basic (VB). That means a VB developer already knows how to use VBA, and a VBA programmer knows a lot about VB.
Author Rod Stephens gives you the most valuable information possible as quickly as possible without rehashing the trivial VB and VBA details you already can recite in your sleep. In Microsoft Office Programming: A Guide for Experienced Developers, Stephens skips the tiresome explanations of variable declarations and dives right into serious Office programming topics, such as automatically customizing menus and toolbars with VBA, making OLE do your work for you, and using ADO to manipulate data in an Access database.
2: Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer)
Providing programmers and developers of all skill levels with a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic (VB) 2008, Microsoft MVP Rod Stephens presents a broad, solid understanding of essential topics on the latest version of VB. He explains the forms, controls, and other objects that VB furnishes for building applications in a modern windows environment. Plus, he examines the powerful development environment that makes VB such a productive language, and he delves into the VB language itself to show you how to use it to perform an array of important development tasks.
Both books are written by Rod Stephens, VB guru and owner of VB Helper.
How to Enter
Four ways:
Tweet this post (and send me a link to your tweet), or
Facebook it (and send me a link to your post), or
Stumble it (and send me a link to your profile), or- Post your favorite holiday-related Excel formula in the comments below.
The Rules
The following rules apply:
- Contest ends Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 12:00 PM EST. (I mistakenly wrote "17th" in the original post. –JP)
- One entry per person/household.
- Shipping to U.S. residents only.
- Entrants will be added to an Excel worksheet and sorted randomly. First prize is the Office VBA book, second prize will be the Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference.
- Winners will be contacted on Friday afternoon for Saturday shipping of product. Please reply promptly so I can ship on the 18th! (Otherwise, I will not be able to ship until after New Year's).
- Delivery by Christmas Eve not guaranteed. If you're trying to give these books as a gift, you're better off clicking on the images above and ordering them from Amazon for overnight delivery.
- I reserve the right to reject any entries.
As usual, anyone who would like to add to the prize pool, please contact me privately.
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