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Summary: OLE DB Development With Visual C++
Review: This book was a big disappointment. The First three chapters are brief descriptions of COM, ATL, and MFC. But these chapters are far to brief to be of any use. This is fair enough given that this book to supposed to be about OLE DB. But Chapter Four buries the reader in all the details of OLE DB. I already have the MSDN Library, so I didn't need an inferior explanation of the all the intricacies of OLE DB. What I was looking for was a higher level explaination of the relationships between the Interfaces of OLE DB. I guess I will continue my search.
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Summary: OLE DB Development With Visual C++
Review: This was the WORST technical book I have ever read. It's a book that is supposed to help you learn OLE DB in Visual C++, but it's hardly more than a reference manual for OLE DB with buggy code examples that the author insists is your fault. ("The code is correct, and has been debugged extensively"). There is no mention the framework of any of the subjects involved (COM+, ATL, OLE DB) and what each of the classes means. The code examples don't seem to have much aim to them, except maybe just to fill something in the book before the publishing deadline. I don't know why anyone would write a book like this... it's not educating. Please don't waste your money on this one!
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