Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) [Paperback]

Michael Amundsen (Author), Curtis Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1997 | Series: Teach Yourself in 21 Days

Visual Basic, the 32-bit programming language from Microsoft, is used by programmers to create Windows and Windows 95 applications. This book shows those programmers how to design, develop, and deploy Visual Basic applications for the World Wide Web Visual Basic 5.

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Visual Basic, the 32-bit programming language from Microsoft, is used by programmers to create Windows and Windows 95 applications. It can also be used to program applications for the Web. This book shows those programmers how to design, develop, and deploy Visual Basic applications for the World Wide Web. - Presented in a daily format with each week focusing on a different area of database development

- Written by a Microsoft Certified Visual Basic Professional

- CD-ROM includes chapter examples, Function Libraries,MicrosoftACCESS/JET 2.5 compatibility layer, and the WHAT6 Help Authoring Tool

Product Details

• Paperback: 1080 pages
• Publisher: Sams Publishing; 2nd edition (April 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067231018X
• ISBN-13: 978-0672310188
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,501,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

An internationally known author and lecturer, Mike Amundsen travels throughout the United States and Europe consulting and speaking on a wide range of topics including distributed network architecture, Web application development, Cloud computing, and other subjects. His recent work focuses on the role hypermedia plays in creating and maintaining applications that can successsfully evolve over time.

He has more than a dozen books to his credit and recently contributed to the book "RESTful Web Services Cookbook" (by Subbu Allamaraju). He is currently working on a new book on designing and implementing Hypermedia APIs. When he is not working, Mike enjoys spending time with his family in Kentucky, USA.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid introduction book to VB DB programming, July 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) (Paperback)

I don't know why other reviewers don't like the book. Actually, I bought all three editions of the book, from VB 4 to VB 6. The book covered most important contents for building VB DB apps, with a lot of useful warnings and tips. Though I have done some VB DB programming before, I found useful info in every chapter which clarifies some issues or teaches some tricks. Give one example, I have tried to use MaskedEdit as a bound control but encountered abnormality when updating records. I spent several hours trying to bypass the error with coding without any luck. Later I happened to find (in this book) that all I need to do is to set the "PromptInclude" property to False. That tip alone already worths the price to me.

Aside from the goodies, I found the VisData chapter not so interesting. That's not quite related to programming. Also I'd like to see a chapter talking about VB/VBA DB programming, differences and relations.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A confusing book at best, and the publisher doesn't care?, May 12, 2000

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Wonk Damboon (West Coast USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) (Paperback)

When I read a book, I capture grammatical errors to send to the editors for the 'next edition'. I collected quite a few early on and decided to send what I had collected so far.

The email addresses listed as publisher contacts for this book came back as 'unknown'. I began to wonder: Did they have so many complaint emails they canceled the email accounts?

I pushed on through the book to discover coding errors in the examples as well.

I give this book a `thumbs down' and will avoid buying SAMS publishing books in the future.

(If I had known about Amazon's rating system at the time I purchased the book, I would have avoided this loss of good $)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply The Best, July 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) (Paperback)

This was simply the best resource I've ever seen concerning Visual Basic 5. Keep up the good work.