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Title: Not for a professional developer
Review: I suppose this book is excellent for a beginner/amateur visual basic developer, but if you have knowledge of the language and want to write powerful database programs, this book doesn't cut it. Most of the examples in the book focus on using the data controls and bounded controls. That works fine for simple database applications, but for real ones you'll need to write most of the database code yourself. This book just relies too heavily on vb's wizards and point and click solutions.It does say it is for beginners, I just personally felt the author skimped too much on the code-it-yourself functionality that visual basic offers. So if you are new to VB and want to get a feel for database application design, this is the book to get. If you're an experienced programmer looking for powerful database applications, I'd suggest you save your money for a more advanced book.
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