This new book from Visual Basic expert Chris Peters shows you how to change your green-screens into Visual Basic windows and gives users PC access to the AS/400. Peters explains Visual Basic using AS/400 terms and analogies. He discusses object-oriented programming and event-driven programming--the key to Windows client/server programming-in terms you'll easily understand. A diskette containing all of the Visual Basic programs in the book is included.
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Too many pages on VB and too little mention of RDO and ODBC,
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This review is from: AS/400 Client/Server Programming with Visual Basic 5.0 (Paperback)
In Part One the author wastes pages teaching VB. Many other publications and the VB online help do much better. In Part Two, the author covers ODBC, Data Queues, and APPC. But ODBC is covered poorly and in connection with DAO - not RDO. Using ODBC with DAO as opposed to RDO is specifically discouraged by both IBM and Microsoft (see their Web pages). ADO is only mentioned in the appendix. If you are interested in APPC (WinAPPC API) this book might be helpful. Same for Data Queues. Do not get this book if you are trying to improve ODBC coding in VB or want a generic SQL client. The author also misguides programmers. He should have noted that IBM is openly more committed to TCP/IP than SNA communications. SNA (and thus APPC) is fast becoming a legacy. Thus, coding to SNA in particular and coding to a non-generic model would not be advisable for most companies. I was looking for a book with up to date and thorough details. This book is dated, lacks complexity, and misses important details.
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This review is from: AS/400 Client/Server Programming with Visual Basic 5.0 (Paperback)
This book is excellent for people just learning Visual Basic. It assumes no prior knowledge and teaches you VB using analogies that relate the new material to concepts familiar to the AS/400 Programmer.
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boxed code, data queue, discard the code, user data type, form design window, declarations area, standard exe project, common dialog control, data type summary, procedures list box, companion diskette, drive list box, directory list box, queue control, acquire operation, error object, spool file, code window, variant data type, device entry, save your project, accompanying diskette, directory box, text box control, form load event Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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boxed code, data queue, discard the code, user data type, form design window, declarations area, standard exe project, common dialog control, data type summary, procedures list box, companion diskette, drive list box, directory list box, queue control, acquire operation, error object, spool file, code window, variant data type, device entry, save your project, accompanying diskette, directory box, text box control, form load event Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Client Access, End Sub, Private Sub, Microsoft Access, Exit Sub, Option Explicit, Integrated Development Environment, Select Case, Cancel Figure, Evergreen Interactive Systems, Help Figure, Microsoft Excel, Title Text, Add-In Manager, Microsoft Common Dialog Control, Text Viewer, End Figure, End Function, Enterprise Edition, Micrc Microsoft, Microsoft Word, Require Variable Declaration, Startup Object, End If Else, Line Input New!
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