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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: May 19 2005
I think that this is a great Visual FoxPro book. If you have any questions about the book, just ask one of the authors: Rod Paddock: http://blogs.officezealot.com/rod/ Rod is very knowledgeable about Visual FoxPro and his skills reflect on this book. After using the book for quite some time, I don't understand why the couple of bad reviews about this book. Someone complained about "screens". It doesn't make sense to me. This great book can used to help you, even if you have Visual FoxPro 9 installed. FoxPro didn't change much in terms of concepts. Just check what Ken Levy has to say: http://blogs.msdn.com/klevy/ The book is loaded with practical examples. If only one example of this book will help you get through a code hurdle you may face, I believe that's a well worth money invested. Here's the Table of contents for Visual Foxpro 6 Enterprise Development: Part I Analysis and Design 1 Chapter 1 Establishing Development Standards 3 Chapter 2 Analysis, Design, and Prototyping 27 Part II Object and Coding Development 57 Chapter 3 Using Visual FoxPro's Debugging Facilities 59 Chapter 4 Integrating Visual FoxPro and Object-Oriented Programming 99 Chapter 5 The FoxPro Enterprise Classes 131 Chapter 6 Communicating with Other Applications 161 Chapter 7 Using the Windows API 205 Chapter 8 Multi-User Development Techniques 245 Chapter 9 Creating Development Tools 295 Part III Database Development 339 Chapter 10 Creating a Visual FoxPro Database 341 Chapter 11 Using SQL in Visual FoxPro Applications 425 Part IV Application Deployment 451 Chapter 12 Client/Server Database Development with Visual FoxPro 453 Chapter 13 Deploying Visual FoxPro Internet Applications 491 Chapter 14 Deploying and Distributing Your Applications 525 Part V Advanced Visual FoxPro Topics 565 Chapter 15 Advanced OOP--An Introduction to Visual Modeling 567 Chapter 16 Advanced Internet with Visual FoxPro 615 Chapter 17 Drag and Drop 651 Chapter 18 Visual FoxPro and Visual Studio 6 681 Appendix What's on the CD? 711 Index After purchasing this book, if you like it as much as I do, please come back to this page and express your opinion (either positive or negative). It's the minimum we can do for the great job the authors of this book did. They deserve congrats!
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( 6 of 11 found this review helpful ) Posted: Sep 25 1999
The opening paragraph of chapter 1 reads as follows:"There are many ways to distinguish a good software development project from a mediocre one. You can look at the appearance of the screens, the way the application behaves, the structure of the underlying tables, or the source code itself. Each of these items tells you something about the developers who built it."The finished application, World Wide Shoes, which is included on the CD and purported to be the end result of working through the exercises in this book, speaks volumes about the author and the publisher. The application is amateurish and of poor quality. It represents few of the development standards outlined in the book.I get the feeling the author has studied programming theory, but has done very little application development.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 29 1999
Not since the days when Mike Brachman was writing on integrating FoxPro and the Windows API has there been such a clear and concise text. This book as loads of great examples, and most importantly, discusses how to pass structures to Windows API functions that require those type of parameters.This book is a must for any serious Visual FoxPro Developer. Hopefully, the tradition of excellence will continue with a version 7.0 of this book in the future.
