( 4 reviews )
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( 7 of 8 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 3 2005
Probably the readers who rated the book with 1 star did not know that they could download the electronic format of the book from hentzenwerke.com. The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0 is the exhaustive guide to every command and function in the language. It is not intended to be read cover to cover as other technical books. It says anything that you need to know and the manual doesn't tell you for every command. Not only describes the usage of the commands but groups the related commands/functions and do perfomance comparisons between them. It refers every known bug for each command/function and also provides the necessary workarounds. The book is still usefull for even VFP 9.0! The electronic format of the book, a chm file can be linked to VFP itself. Every serious VFP developer must have this book in its side.
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( 4 of 5 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 24 2005
This is nothing but gibberish. More like someone talking about what they know about VFPro in the vaguest of terms. There is no chapter on, 'how to do your first program' or whatever as refered to by one reviewer. I wonder if those 4 star reviewers where paid pumpers or dear friends of the author. I will admit that I did not get past page 54 of the book. That is where I stopped because I found nothing of relevance that would help me improve my skills as a VFP programmer. I consider myself an advanced beginner, so if you are a beginner, do not even attempt to read this book. There is very little continuity, jumping from one useless tip to another without any real usefull or pratical application. It is as if it was put together haphazzardly from a pile of notes, jumpled in with the laundry list. You can do better looking for free links on google than paying money for this. However, on the up side, maybe some day when I have nothing else to do, I will spent a little more time reading the book. Just my humble opinion.
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( 2 of 6 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 6 2003
This book is a complete waste of money. The book doesn't contain ANY relevant information. The authors just goes on and on about NOTHING. They have got to be payed by the number of words, why else put irrelevant quotes on every second or third page?Do NOT buy this book!
