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Summary: worst reference book I have read
Review: After the files from the cd are copied to your harddisk, you need to change the file attributes from read only to read/write. All files that are copied from cd rom are always read only!
Rating: 
Summary: Mixed
Review: Barry, you make no mention of how to access the features on the CD-Rom. I get read-only messages whenever I try and look at any of the underlying forms or programs. Unfortunately, I was only trying to look at the CD because I wasn't getting much out of the book to begin with.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK
Review: I bought this book because the Developer Studio CD version of VFP includes no manual. The book claims to provide step-by-step instructions on how to build VFP apps. I think not. There's some passably interesting information on consulting and general issues, but this is a horrible book to attempt to learn VFP programming from.
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Summary: Probably the most UNHELPFUL 'manual' I've read!
Review: I have tried to use this an introduction to VFP 5.0 on three occassions. This last time I HURLED it across the room at the wall! This is no exaggeration. The cover implies it will take the reader through a tutorial of how to build a VFP 5 program. However, you start the 'project' on about page 45 and Barrie then leaves the subject open and moves through to at least page 140 without ever mentioning the 'project' again. On page 67 he states 'Right click the database designer'...... there IS no database designer on screen nor in the menus and he has not mentioned it up until now! On page 75 he states 'If you don't see the relationship type you want, go back into the tables involved and re-define the index(es)'. At no point does he suggest how to change them or what to change them to. There are 3 types of indexes giving arange of 9 possibilities with no assistance from Barrie at all.Thanks Barrie for wasting my time and money! (You might guess that I do not like this book!!!!)
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Summary: Mixed
Review: I'd have to say this book is disappointing
to an extent. I'm a beginner to VFP and thought
this book would help me gain a better
understanding of how VFP works. It has in
that it does a great job of explaining the
different VFP commands in the early chapters.
However, while Sosinsky provides step-by-step
information for creating different
tables, showing off VFP commands etc, he doesn't have
any data to put into the tables so the tutorials
can be rather confusing. It would
have been better if he had included
sample data to connect the tutorials together.
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Summary: Dissapointing that the CD data does not work.
Review: There are brief instructions at the back of the book on how install the CD data files. After simply copying the folders from the CD to the hard drive, as instructed, and then trying to open the project and rebuild it, as instructed, one finds that all of the files are read-only. It seems that Barrie wants people to by his book, but does not want them to be able to access the data on the CD, rendering the data files and therefore the book, useless.
Rating:
Summary: worst reference book I have read
Review: This is the worst book on programming that I have bought. Mr.Barrie Sosinsky didn't write the book in a proper way where the readers can learn the magic power of Visual Foxpro.
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