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Summary: that's right, its worthless
Review: The book describes a few things about PFC. Interestingly half the time, to know about any detailed services of a particular type it says "More information about 'xyz' can be found in Powerbuilder Online Books and PFC online help." Then why do you need to buy this book ?????
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Summary: just ok !
Review: The book describes a few things about PFC. Interestingly half the time, to know about any detailed services of a particular type it says "More information about 'xyz' can be found in Powerbuilder Online Books and PFC online help." Then why do you need to buy this book ?????
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Summary: Bridges the gaps between abstract and concrete Classes
Review: The book tied up all of the loose ends of the PFC service based architecture that you got from the PB manuals. Explanations and examples of the PFC events and especially the PRE and Post processing events.
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Summary: Honorable Competitor
Review: This book appears to be in direct competition with mine... at first glance it does. Once you read the book you find that indeed the emphasis is entirely different. This book explains a lot of the theory and the use of the PFC's and that appears to be the purpose of the book. It is exemplary in achieving that purpose. It covers all of the areas that are of great concern to the typical programmer in exquisite detail. My book only briefly addresses that in the appendices. To my mind this book is like a manual while mine like a dictionary. For me, I can't get along without both.
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Summary: This is simply the online documentation in a book!
Review: This book does nothing more than put the online documentation in a book form. There is no real help for developers trying to learn tricks or just how to use the PFC. While it is a slight improvement from the documentation, it should have been what was provided from Powersoft. This book is a waste of time.
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Summary: Don't expect too much
Review: This is the book that Powersoft should have provided with the libraries. And nothing more. It is absurd that a library like PFC should be sold with just a list of function and objects. The authors of this book are very good at organizing the original list and presenting it in a more friendly way. I still would like to know why the release of the book was held back 6 months. Was it because of the chapter on PFC 6.0 that never made it into print but is included in the CD?
On the bright side, the authors are household names for the PB/PFC community and it is like having a friend's book on the shelve.
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Summary: A $_ help file
Review: This will serve as an expensive guide for those who simply hate printing topics from the PFC help file or feel they may be missing something from supplied documentation. Save for two very basic examples (e.g. page 407 - pfc treeview object) and a CD containing a hastily developed sample application, the reader would most certainly learn more by opening up objects in the PFC layer and studying the source code. To date, there still remains a shortage of documentation/case studies on proper object-oriented or service-oriented use of Powerbuilder for large-scale enterprise application development, and this book does little to fill that void.
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Summary: Attn: PFC Techies ~ Can't wait for this one...Boris is tops!
Review: To all PowerBuilder PFC Techies...
This book is a "MUST HAVE"!
Boris Gasin is a well-known and highly respected PFC helper. He has helped more PowerBuilder programmers in their endeavors to build robust applications than imaginable. Having mastered the PFC in an extraordinary way, Boris eagerly and accurately leads the way for others. Our thanks to Boris for all of his efforts.
Sincerely, Sharon Buntz
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Summary: The 1st complete guide to PFC written by Powersoft insiders!
Review: Used by over 300,000 software developers, the PowerBuilder Foundation Class library is a major advance in the use of object orientation and is now the standard by which other class libraries are measured. Written by members of Team Powersoft with contributions by Steve Benfield, Kent Marsh, and William Rompala, POWERBUILDER FOUNDATION CLASS LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE is the definitive guide to the PFC and its applications, including its use in building object-oriented software for the Internet and client/server. Every facet of the PFC is covered, including its advantages over other class libraries, components, menus and windows, extensibility, services, and the application design and development tools needed to support the PFC. This complete reference tackles such technical issues as: · performance and tuning - including performance enhancement techniques
· extending the PFC - with insight into the extension layer and extension techniques, methods and layer usage
· deploying the PFC - with tips on deploying with PowerBuilder Dynamic Libraries
· maintenance upgrades - including full coverage of centralized upgrades
· documentation and help - manuals, on-line help, PFC Code, Powersoft training, and more
Featuring a special section on running PowerBuilder applications on the Internet, the Professional Reference provides a CD-ROM packed with templates and tools for building PFC applications.
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