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Visual Basic 5 Client/Server How to with CD

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If you want a step by step instruction and clear, concise comments of creating an application, then this book is not for you. In order for you to grasp the "True" favor of this book, you need to understand the basic concepts of OOP. I'll give it A Five Start Rating if this book were titled "HOW TO CONNECT A DATABASE USING RDO"

I too bought this book for its coverage of RDO. Yes there are a few issues related to it's early release date (it takes about 15 minutes to update every rdoPreparedStatement reference in the book to rdoQuery). And there is a little code debugging. But, on the positive side, it does provide some really great examples to get you going with RDO. I have found it to be one of the most helpful books I own. Those folks, who tossed it without really seeing what it has to offer, lost out.

If the previous reviewers could look past the end of their noses, they would see that there is a lot of worth while coding examples in this book. The problem definitions are clear and the solutions work. Many of the problems that the previous reviewers found could easily be changed. Maybe they just need to be a little less wet behind the ears and realize that no matter what book they buy, they are going to have to pick and choose and modify what they use. There's a step by step 21 day book out there if that's what you want.

No real setup. An abundance of file loading errors. License Agreement Error keeps comin up. Sample Code doesn't have enough error handling. Sloppy Sloppy work......To the authors, Get a CLUE. Learn how to use install shield if you're going to include a CD in your book!! Compile your code on something other than a beta version of vb 5.0! This book was a horrible waste of my time and money. Garbage..........

I purposely bought this book for its extensive discussion of RDO processing. But when I began to read through it it bacame apparent that the author was either ignorant of, or wrote before, the new RDO structure under version 5. The RDO 'PreparedStatement' layer has been replaced in Version 5 by the newer 'RDO Query' layer and yet there was no mention of this in the book. I returned it immediately because I felt that if such an important point was missed for this subject that other subjects could be errant as well