Customer Reviews

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

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

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.

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 $)

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

I wrestled with this book for weeks. I thought I was crazy. Then I got a book on sql, and things developed a bit.

The problem with the book is that it teaches a bit of sql, but never hooks it up to visual basic. Maybe it does somewhere, but darned if I can find it.

Lots of stuff, but all disconnected. And all that money.......

This book is sloppy, buggy, and a lot of the code doesn't work, but it can be worth the effort, especially, when it's necessary to port an MS Access application to VB5.

The included CD ROM has a lot of useful code which either works or I was able to fix and get working. As an Access developer for many years, I've found it very difficult to come up with good reasons for porting applications to VB . . . but, apparently there are . . . which is why I plowed through this book that I strongly recommend (???) with lots of reservations. The stuff is useful!

Sams should try and figure out how to do "right" by its customers as the book really is a mess. What they've produced here is not much more than a first draft!

My advice is to use a pencil to mark all the mistakes.

I found this book to be a very good source for database programming, especially for beginners. I not only went through all 21 days of lessons but also return to the book frequently as a help resource.

I found this book extremely useful. Many questions I had always needed answered were by this book. Easy to understand and follow. I highly recommend it!

This book is unuseful. It contains too many bugs, hard to follow examples, and "Stream of Consciousness" teaching.

Even as an expierienced Visual Basic programmer, I felt lost at times. I ended up learning database programming through trial and error.

To echo many of the other reviews this book is horrible. The example code is riddled with mistakes and the explinations of the code become shorter and shorter as the book progresses. By the time I reached chapter 10 Im spending much more time reading VB5 help screens than I am reading the book.

I have read many programming books over the years, and about 5 Visual Basic 5.0 in the past few months. I found this one to be very confusing, the code to be very buggy, and writing to be inconsistent from one chapter to another. Not recommended.