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Title: Database Developer's Guide With Visual C++ 4.0 (Sams Developer's Guide) by Peter D. Hipson, Roger Jennings, Sams Publishing ISBN: 0-672-30913-0 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2.17 (6 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Not useful at all!
Comment: There is no concrete example in this book! Only a few which is either generated by AppWizard or copied from the samples come with Visual C++ 5.0. You cannot get any idea how to develop robust DB front-end applications after reading it. Maybe you can use it for reference for some ODBC and DAO classes.

Rating: 1
Summary: Definitely not for a Developer
Comment: This book is supposed to be designed for an advance developer. Well, my opinion is that this is not designed for a developer but for somebody who has a management and non-technical background who just want to read something about Visual C++ Development. Most of the code in this book were created by just using the appwizard of the Visual C++ package. Anybody can do that! If you know Visual C++ software development and read this book, you will probably doubt if the authors really know Visual C++ and MFC programming. Perhaps the authors are expert in their own field but this book is poorly organized and I guess haphazardly written. I do not recommend this book unless you have nothing else to do.

Rating: 4
Summary: Four stars
Comment: A casual glance at the back of this volume reveals a "User Level" indicator: accomplished to expert -- definitely not for the casual or inexperienced programmer. The buyer is given fair warning. This is a good reference for the experienced C++ programmer who knows some SQL/Windows/VC++IDE and wants to put them all together to create PROFESSIONAL, industrial-strength programs for a living. The author makes no bones about targeting the most financially profitable areas of database programming. The format of this book is not geared to the dive-in-and-get-your-hands-dirty approach (which is what I prefer.) A "Hello, world!" tutorial mindset, like mine, is bored and confused by not having written anything by the end of the first few pages. Chapter 1 is a (very objective) evaluation of the available tools to do the job and why VC++ is the best. If I had been sufficiently warned, I would have skipped that one. From there on out, it is a well-organized reference and tutorial (in my opinion). This is definitely a get-the-job-done tools book for a professional writing professional programs in a real-world environment. If you want to get the skills for those six-figure jobs, this is the book to buy. (Make sure you know something about SQL/VC++ Windows development first, though.)