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A Beginner's Guide to Developing Documentum® Desktop Applications: Techniques and Solutions Using Visual Basic® and the DFC

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This is book covers all the basics regarding Documentum. All the information you need regarding Documentum, it's structure, and most importantly, how to do something with everything one can store in Documentum.

I noticed one review was upset that the author uses VB to show how to get more out of Documentum. This is not a problem in my opinion since anyone will be able to adapt their individual expertise with the information contained in this book. If you know .NET, you will be able to use .NET. Same goes for Java, DocBasic and Visual Basic.

In a nutshell, this book is great to help someone familiarize themselves with the ins-and-outs of Documentum. Great book. It helped me on my job.

The book does a great job in describing what is needed to perform various functions in documentum. I just wished that the author did not use the same examples over and over again. It would be great if there were more variety of examples as to show the many ways a function or procedure can be performed.

Actually, since Documentum will interface w/ MS Office Suite, many solutions will be implemented in VBA.

The above said, yes, some solutions will be implemented in VB and .Net.

A Beginner's Guide to Developing Documentum Desktop Applications is an essential tool for the new and veteran Documentum developer. This book provides examples to get you on your way to developing new applications as well as tricks to help you unlock some of the well-kept secrets in the Documentum architecture. Finally this rare book has been written and if you are a Documentum developer it is a must have for your bookshelf.

How useful is a book that uses obsolete technology? I am extremely dissapointed that a very recent book isn't focused on development in .NET. No one is going to implement a Documentum solution in Visual Basic. This book is useless.