Visual Foxpro 6 Enterprise Development

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Summary: Does Prima Tech read the books it publishes?
Review: A picturous book, provides good analysis as far as object-oriented programming, code, SQL, and Internet capabilities. The authors do not seem to suggest Fox in any, but only as a middle-tier solution in the Client/Server development. Disagreeing with the authors, Fox in fact may be an excelent and exceptional back/front-end for small and medium size and cost-effective database applications. Overall, it is an excellent source to get started/advanced with Visual FoxPro 6.

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Summary: A must for those who need to implement the Windows API!
Review: 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.

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Summary: Does Prima Tech read the books it publishes?
Review: 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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Summary: Great book for non-newbies
Review: This is a great book for people that are already familiar with the Visual FoxPro environment. It provides a no bull approach to using Visual FoxPro for real. It has great coverage of the Windows API and a great set of libraries for Microsoft Office. If you want to learn how to use the advanced features of VFP quickly then this book is for you.