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Summary: The BEST reference I have ever read on VFP
Review: The BEST reference I have ever read on VF
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Summary: Waste of time, paper, and money
Review: There would be some benefit from this book if you could weed out the cutesy comments, but it's just too hard to do. On every page are numerous sentences to waste your time. When programming and studying you need to concentrate. You don't want to see "(and Santa)" when reading about clauses. There is a section called "Doing it in public" and it asks things like "Can you offer a subroutine a good home?" Hey, can you give me a break?You can't find what you want either. There are 953 pages. And the table of contents is only 2 pages. It would fit even on one page if you removed Benjamin Franklin's epitaph that takes up half of the first page. (No kidding - They really added B.F.'s epitaph to a FoxPro book.) But, a table of contents at any length is no good when the chapter titles are things like "Your server will be with you in a moment" and "OOP is not an accident." You know, "Mom was right", the section titles are even more worthless.
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Summary: Waste of time, paper, and money
Review: There would be some benefit from this book if you could weed out the cutesy comments, but it's just too hard to do. On every page are numerous sentences to waste your time. When programming and studying you need to concentrate. You don't want to see "(and Santa)" when reading about clauses. There is a section called "Doing it in public" and it asks things like "Can you offer a subroutine a good home?" Hey, can you give me a break? You can't find what you want either. There are 953 pages. And the table of contents is only 2 pages. It would fit even on one page if you removed Benjamin Franklin's epitaph that takes up half of the first page. (No kidding - They really added B.F.'s epitaph to a FoxPro book.) But, a table of contents at any length is no good when the chapter titles are things like "Your server will be with you in a moment" and "OOP is not an accident." You know, "Mom was right", the section titles are even more worthless.
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Summary: A Must for any Visual FoxPro 6 Programmer
Review: This book has to be one of the best, if not the best resource on Visual FoxPro 6, listing all the keywords, methods, what bugs exist and if possible, how to work around them. I just hope it gets updated to include the new features that appeard in Service Pack 3. It also has cool tips, and many more... As I have said this has to be a must for any VFP6 Programmer.
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Summary: For beginners and experts...
Review: This book is probably the best reference book for VFP that is (or ever has been) available. It can be very helpful for beginners, who are trying to figure out why this or that is not working as intended; but be warned, it is not a 'How To' book. And it can be very helpful for long-time FoxPro developers who need to be continually reviewing and reminding themselves of the intricacies and various uses of the langauge. If you're a serious developer, this book is great for honing your skills by reading a couple of topics each morning or night for the rest of your life (it's a big book).
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Summary: The biggest book ever on FoxPro!
Review: This is a giant work, physically and mentally. Every VFP developer should own it. VB programmers might want to see what they are missing.
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Summary: The New Testament for VFP Programmers
Review: This is the book that every VFP programmer needs to have on their shelf, and on their machine. Many people use the .CHM file that is included with the book as their primary help reference, in place of the one that ships with VFP. This book documents all of the functions, commands, and PEMs of Visual FoxPro, including the ones that are no longer documented by Microsoft. It tells you how they work, how they're supposed to work, and what they're good for. When there's a bug, or something that looks like a bug but is actually the correct behavior, it is pointed out with cute icons in the margin. Tamar and Ted also spend a good deal of time explaning the history of Fox, and how Visual Foxpro differs from earlier versions. They also cover how to create builders and wizard templates. Without The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 3.0, I would never have gotten as far as I have. Buy this book, and learn more than you thought possible. :-)
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Summary: You don't want to live without this book
Review: This is the long-awaited update to Tamar and Ted's outstanding Hacker's Guide written for Visual FoxPro 3.0. The entire book is available as an HTML help file, and makes a good addition to (or even replacement for) the Visual Studio help file for Visual FoxPro. However, this book is great to just sit and read. Tamar and Ted both have a delightful sense of humor, and spare no one including themselves and Microsoft in their honest straightforward assessment of all the wonderful features and annoying infelicities of this powerful application development tool. This can be accurately described as "The Bible" on Visual FoxPro.
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Summary: MUST HAVE... if you use FoxPro, You REALLY want this book
Review: This is the Visual FoxPro Bible. You must download or order the CD, but its well worth the 15 min to download. You WILL use the Hackers Guide online reference before you even open the MSDN online help. This book will Rock Your World!
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Summary: Pretentious Quotes! No Thanks!
Review: Unfortunately for me, however good this book is as a reference and it is good, on nearly every page there are irrelevant and pretentious quotations from everything from the Bible to Ghandi. By the time I reached page 20, I threw up. This style of writing only gives credence to the concept that programmers are total geeks!
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