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Summary: Not a manual for quick help, but a guide to study!
Review: Dear friends, don't use this book to solve a problem you've NOW. If you never programmed with VFP, this iS NOT the best book to buy. Read it, as a guide to understand what VFP has to give in several aspects, that other books just mentioned. Here, you have complete examples (althouth they should come on a CD-Rom) that can be VERY useful to your application. It has a little of everything, but doesn't focus too much (it's up to you find the rest of the way). But, i think it's a good book.
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Summary: sure map to nowhere
Review: I agree with the other reviews. If you are a beginner with Visual FoxPro, stay away from this book. I know nothing about programming VFP, but I've done my share of programming. I've worked with BASIC, COBOL, Pascal, C and assembly. I figured I could transfer my previous programming knowledge to VFP. Not with this book! This book wouldn't even make a good reference. I suppose if you knew how to program in VFP, you might get something out of it.
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Summary: For me, this book was a bad choice...
Review: I agree with the other reviews. If you are a beginner with Visual FoxPro, stay away from this book. I know nothing about programming VFP, but I've done my share of programming. I've worked with BASIC, COBOL, Pascal, C and assembly. I figured I could transfer my previous programming knowledge to VFP. Not with this book! This book wouldn't even make a good reference. I suppose if you knew how to program in VFP, you might get something out of it.
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Summary: Dissapointing read
Review: I found the book particularly hard to follow, with a lot of disjointed areas. For example, early in the book, the author talks about the main window, with a command window inside that, further down the same page it refers to the command window as the main window and goes on to describe the objects within that window. However as the author has swopped 'main' and 'command', utter confusion results. I would advise people who need a Foxpro primer not to get this book. There appears to be no succinct overview of the Foxpro package to enable you to hang any threads from. It reads rather like a mystery book, where all is only made clear at the last chapter, unfortunately I never got there due to the number of mistakes and confusion generated before that. This quite expensive book was a total waste of my time and money.
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Summary: It meets my required.
Review: I think that it will be the completely quide for the user
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Summary: Waste of money
Review: I wish I had read the review before buying this book. For someone on a limited budget I am extremely dissapointed.
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Summary: Very good VFP6 book if you invest time in it
Review: I've read several Visusal FoxPro books, and to me, this was one of the better ones. It's not really designed as a reference book, but rather as a guide to helping the reader learn to use the various functionaliy available in VFP. This is a big topic, and the author addresses a wide range of issues. I would recommend this book to users who already have some (but not necessarily a lot) of VFP experience, and want to advance from a beginner to the next level. The book is over a thousand pages, so if you're looking for a "Learn VFP in 5-minutes", this is not the book for you.
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Summary: Very good VFP6 book if you invest time in it
Review: I've read several Visusal FoxPro books, and to me, this was one of the better ones. It's not really designed as a reference book, but rather as a guide to helping the reader learn to use the various functionaliy available in VFP. This is a big topic, and the author addresses a wide range of issues. I would recommend this book to users who already have some (but not necessarily a lot) of VFP experience, and want to advance from a beginner to the next level. The book is over a thousand pages, so if you're looking for a "Learn VFP in 5-minutes", this is not the book for you.
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Summary: No Good is an uderstatement!
Review: If you are a beginner to VFP6, do not buy this book.. It is a useless book as a reference as well. To be totally honest, this is the worst book I've ever read!
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Summary: Who edited this junk
Review: Que books usually excel by providing a well-organized presentation with a good ratio of pictures to useful text. This book is an exception. VFP is an object-oriented language (if you don't know what that means skip down to my last paragraph) but the introduction to OOP begins on page 420. That does not stop the authors from discussing methods and properties at length in the first several hundred pages of the book. This will destroy people who have not worked in other OO languages. People who have worked in other OO languages will crave the OO details instead of procedural code with different syntaxes for doing the same thing. The sample code snippets are terrible in that they include syntax and semantics that have not been explained. As far as I can tell there is no online version of the code or the book.
It is even worse than this because there are examples using databases and files that are not provided or described anywhere in the book. There are large sections of the book that are totally repetitive. Other sections that are totally worthless provide cheerleading and saying things like, "Your use of the Project Manager will depend on your programming experience, your interest and your needs." (Very useful information isn't it). Spend your money on Hentzenwerke books instead. They are wordy but not junk.
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