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Title: Although useful, some of the instructions were inadequate.
Review: This is approximately an intermediate book with quite a bit of elementary material on database development that is not specific to FoxPro. I like that it gives the reader a broad overview of the development process, but it does not give enough detail to "construct a marketable database" as the back cover touts. As an application programer moving from FoxPro 2.x to VFP, I had many questions that went unanswered. However, I found a number of the missing answers in the VFP 5.0 documentation. I also liked that the book used the framework application included with VFP 5.0 for illustration, instead of an entirely different framework. Because the book's guidelines are consistent with Microsoft's approach, the VFP 5.0 wizards are far more useable. On the other hand, this book's discussion of VFP's OOP implementation is way too choppy and shallow to allow someone new to VFP to really use OOP effectively.
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