Title: One big gripe...
Product review: Although the author, in his comment below, points out that correctly-running code is available at his web site, he neglects to note that this code will only work with Visual Studio .NET, the latest-greatest-and-most-expensive release from Microsoft. I would guess that most people who would be interested in this book would be more likely to own Visual Studio 6.0, but the source code won't compile under that product. The web site offers little more than a suggestion that the user without the megabucks to get the new Visual Studio should simply rewrite the source code to get it to run under 6.0...but I would suspect that, if you have the programming skills to do that, you probably don't need this book! To my mind, it borders on the unconscionable to release a book with code that only a few well-heeled readers will be able to afford to use, then shrug off that barrier by suggesting that the rest of us should simply "roll your own."
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