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Summary: Great book for transitioning to VJ6 and Windows development!
Review: I have been a developer in VB for years and have decided to transition to VJ6 to get around many of VB's limitations and problems. This book provided me a great way to learn all the features of WFC and VJ6 and transition with relative ease! Unlike many of the other reviewers, I did not expect this book to teach them how to program in Java or to be all inclusive. No book is. What this book did provide me with was a set of examples to work with that taught me the major aspects of programming in WFC and VJ6 and it did it in a straightforward and non-preaching fashion. I felt that I was being stepped through the learning not thrusted with long diatribes about features. The author did not spend a ton of time selling me on VJ6 or Java but instead spent the time demonstrating its potential for my application needs. The examples are good especially the last chapter's which seemed to "bottle up" the book's prior examples. If you are looking for a book to teach you the Java language this is not the one. BUT, if you are looking for a quick method for transitioning your experience in a previous language (even purist Java) to VJ6, WFC, and Win32 application development, this is the book to you.
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Summary: Must buy for J++ solution developers
Review: Java SDK purist, stay away from this book. Also if you don't know Java or C++ syntax, stay away This book isn't for the beginner J++ developer. The points in this workshop touch on J++ NOT Java. This book will focus on the WFC,ODBC db, and COM. All MS staples. Don't expect to get anything pertaining to Java SDK in this. I found the examples helpful, especially the COM example. The simpliest implementation I've ever seen.
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Summary: Must buy for J++ solution developers
Review: Previously I rated this book as a 4 instead of a 5 due to what I incorrectly perceived as a lack of coverage of database programming techniques. Upon re-reading Chapter 10, which contains an in-depth ado example, I now believe that this book deserves a rating of 5. In other words, this book contains many useful examples, including non-databound-control database programming examples.
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Summary: This book contains some very useful examples.
Review: This book contains some very useful examples, and will help you get a basic windows application put together in a very short amount of time. I am a non-gui C++ COM programmer with only a little bit of Java experience and by using this book, I was able to produce a useful COM testing tool within a weekend. If you have gui programming experience then you will probably be able to do better. I rated this book 4 instead of 5 because the book contains very little coverage of database programming techniques. Instead, most of the book's database discussion focuses on the use of data-bound controls. I enjoyed reading this book and believe that it was a worthwhile purchase.
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