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Summary: Book for begginers?
Review: I'm new to VC++ and bought this book as a start up. I was *GREATLY* disapointed this book only scrapes the begining. It dosn't teach you how to use the language just goes over the examples.For Example: there a chapter that talks about Common Dialogs (FileOpen, FileSave), and it didn't talk about how to use most of the dialogs and with the ones it did it only talked abou 1/10 of their capabilities! The rest I had to learn by my self from Newsgroups and the MSDN.
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Summary: Great Introduction to Database Programming
Review: If you're reasonably experienced with C++ (in the Windows realm) but lacking in knowledge of the latest Microsoft database technologies, this is a terrific book to buy. I found the examples to be helpful, and the way the book is written makes it seem like you have a Guru right over your shoulder helping you along. I strongly disagree with the negative reviews presented on this book; I found the text to be accurate and informative and the text covered a variety of useful topics. Those who had trouble getting the demonstrations to work properly may want to brush up on their basics* a bit, although this book doesn't require overly extensive knowledge of MFC. * (Such as actually stepping through the code to see that the problem was your fault.)
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Summary: Great Book!!
Review: Picked up this book when I got assigned to THE corporate database project. It has really saved a lot of trial and error. The project is staring out on time due to the help recieved from this book. Thank You.
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Summary: Great overview of ADO, OLE/DB and Windows DB development
Review: Reviewer: Jan David Narkiewicz, jann@lomaprieta.com This text lives up to its title. It spans all aspects of database development with Visual C++ 6.0 (ADO, OLE/DB, MTS, COM, ODBC, developer studio overview, database/SQL overview and multi-tiered architecture overview). The text even provides historical perspective through ODBC, ODBC through MFC, DAO, RDS, etc. You are provided with the big picture from native SQL and ODBC up through OLE/DB to ADO and client-side data access. Special emphasis is placed on ADO and OLE/DB, but care is taken to review each aspect of database development (including design and programming language considerations). This is the only C++ text to cover this spectrum of material. I am both a software developer and an instructor at U.C. Berkeley, Extension and U.C. Santa Cruz, Extension. My most recent course offering is entitled "ActiveX Database Programming." This course covers ADO, RDS and OLE/DB. My course text is "Database Programming with Visual C++ 6.0." I would not make my students buy a book unless it was stellar. I do have a criticism of this text, namely that it is too short. Yes it is a fantastic overview with some nice drill down. I wanted another 200 pages on OLE/DB another 100 pages on ADO. Multidimensional data and asynchronous access could have been presented. To be fair, the text is nearly 600 pages long. I wanted 900 pages, which is a tribute to the text.
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Summary: Great book for MFC programmers w/limited DB knowledge
Review: The author is obviously skilled at explaining the concepts involved with C++ database programming but I was upset to find that the example code did not work. I even copied it from the CD that came with the book and recompiled; it compiles without errors but still it doesn't work.
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Summary: Code Doesn't Work
Review: The author is obviously skilled at explaining the concepts involved with C++ database programming but I was upset to find that the example code did not work. I even copied it from the CD that came with the book and recompiled; it compiles without errors but still it doesn't work.
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Summary: The book teaches C++ programmers about database programming.
Review: The book begins by exploring the various database technologies that are available to C++ Windows developers, including Structured Storage, record managers, ISAM databases, relational databases, and object databases. The early chapters explain database concepts in a manner that will resonate with C++ programmers. The book then explores relational database development using VC++ 6. The book covers VC++ programming for ADO, RDS, OLE DB, ODBC, MTS, COM, as well as DAO and the MFC ODBC classes. The book teaches how to choose the best database model/technology for your application, how to do database design, ways to leverage a database server, how to create C++ component software for database apps, and tools and strategies for multi-tier application development. The book contains detailed source code examples, as well as practical advice for building real-life database applications. By the way, "Lyn Robison" is the true author of this book. "Lyn Robinson" is an evil imposter who tries to take credit for all of my work. :-)
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Summary: Don`t waste your money
Review: The book tries to teach you database programming by making a program with several features, but you know what? After day 3 the code is no good! . The book might be good to lear a little sql, but its no good for visual c++ database programming... Has no support for their no good code.
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Summary: WHAT A WASTE OF MY MONEY
Review: The code doesn't work ! Half of the book teaches you SQL. IfI had wanted to know how to write SQL statements I would have boughtanother book! I am being more productive with Microsoft's Tutorial. The minimum rate is 1 star but I'd give it -5 stars. The negative (not even 0) is due to the waste of my time also !
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Summary: a novice vc ++ database programmer
Review: The title of this book should be called Introduction to VC++ database programming. After reading this book, I'm very doubtful that one can write a VC++ database program. The narratives on the code samples listed in the book are poorly described. As a programmer, I would like to see samples on how to use the VC++ tools to generate MFC database code. In many cases, it has a lot of architecture pictures and descriptions of various database facilities in VC++, eg ADO,RDO,ODBC API etc. If one would like to read about these facilities, he/she can get the write papers from the Microsoft Developer Network on the Internet easily.
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