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Learn OLE DB Development With Visual C++ 6.0

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Learn OLE DB Development with Visual C++ 6.0 presents the basics of the Component Object Model and OLE DB, and assists Visual C++ programmers in creating OLE DB providers and consumers. OLE DB is the ODBC-compliant standard from Microsoft that lets non-record-based data interact with its users via recordset semantics and powerful data controls like ADO and RDO. This book gives you all the basics needed to create your own OLE DB consumers and providers in Visual C++, using the ActiveX Template Library and the Microsoft Foundation Classes. Putting OLE DB components on the Internet is also covered.

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1556226349
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978-1556226342
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Wordware Publishing, Inc.
Publication date

March 25, 2003
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English
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7.52 x 1.5 x 9.26 inches
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600 pages
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Nathan Wallace is a computer programmer and consultant in Denver, Colorado, who has been writing best-selling computer books since 1994. His titles with Wordware include Learn ActiveX Scripting with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (1-55622-611-X), Learn Microsoft Active Desktop Programming Using Windows 98 (1-55622-628-4), and Learn ActiveX Development Using Visual Basic 5.0 (1-55622-606-3).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wordware Publishing, Inc. (March 25, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 600 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1556226349
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1556226342
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.54 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.52 x 1.5 x 9.26 inches

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Nelis Willers

Rather look at MSDN files

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2000

The most important section of 'OLE DB Development with Visual C++' is the Table of Contents - it provides the only notion of structure in an otherwise rambling stream of poorly formatted text. The best part of the book is its cover.
Chapters 1 to 5 are Primers, on COM, ATL, MFC, OLE BD and ADO (323 pages in total). If only these chapters were primers, then the book might have succeeded. Only the COM chapter comes even close to a primer. The chapters on ATL and MFC merely step you through the VisualStudio wizards (and haven't we been through this enough?). The OLE DB and ADO primers are so poorly disguised rewrites of the online MSDN documentation, that Microsoft might be warranted to consider action. Do yourself a favor and compare these chapters with the corresponding MSDN entries -- it is scary!
Chapters 6 to 9 provide examples on creating OLE DB providers and consumers in ATL and MFC. These examples follow the rote formula of providing a few pages of wizard steps, followed by many pages of source code. The source listings highlight Wallace's code to indicate which code you should add to the wizard's code. The highlighted code is poorly commented, with further cryptic notes like : "Lines 193-239: This code opens the database specified in the Open dialog. It takes care of closing open Recordsets and deleting existing OLE DB consumers first. Notice that it always starts in table display mode." (p490). That's it. That is all you get in this book.
The CD supplied with the book contains the examples contained in Chapters 6 to 9 (no examples in the other chapters). A web interface, including all the (unnecessary) FrontPage files, provides a simple user interface to the example files. The CD also contains VisiBroker (in a COM book?) and a directory filled with various zip files and installation executable files. There is no readme or any other form of explanation on these files.
There is not a single diagram of any kind in the entire book. Figures are all screen captured wizard dialog boxes. The total number of pages devoted to explanation is probably less than fifty. Clearly, this book was put together in great haste and with little thought about exposition, explaining or teaching. The rear cover reads "OLE DB is the ODBC-compliant standard ....", typical of the poor attention to detail evident in the design and presentation of this book.
Only buy this book if you cannot get the ADO and OLE DB reference information from Microsoft MSDN. Don't expect to actually learn anything about OLE DB here, rather visit MSDN for a more detailed and accessible coverage. I have learned my lesson, stick with the well-known authors and major publishers.

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Sidney Phillip Rhodes

Horrible book - save your money

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2000

Before buying this book, I was a little angry about the lack ofquality documentation on using OLE DB and ADO in C++. After buyingthis book, I am STILL angry about the lack of quality documentation on using OLE DB and ADO in C++, AND I'm angry about being out the bucks I spent on it. This book misses the mark on (what I took to be) it's intended audience, badly. Hardly a book for a beginner to learn the subject, it's just a rehash of reference material available elsewhere. Why, oh why, does Amazon not have a rating of 0 stars for these reviews? END

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Audrey Frank

Possibly the worst tech book ever published.

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2005

In the book's prerequisite chapter, we receive our Com "hard hat" by understanding that dynamic-link libraries are "the long-desired binary compatibility for applications!" Given that the goal of the book is to teach OleDb, such fortune-cookie interjection probably does not suit the reader. An OleDb and Ado "Primer" consumes two thirds of the book, and is an alphabetically organized incomplete subset of the MS documentation. Incomplete because it was edited, and even that was done poorly; Something useful like a description of IDBSchemaRowset is not included, while the interfaces that are chosen retain Microsoft verbiage that would be useful only to an OleDb provider developer.

New developers should avoid this book because they will need to unlearn what is presented, or simply find the material impassible. Moderately experienced developers will recognize that they are more qualified than the author.

I would recommend studying the MS rowset viewer sample for OleDb. For conceptual preparation I recommend an academic SQL book and early chapters of Rogerson's Inside COM. OleDb is the marriage of the two, and I have yet to find a good book that described the pair as opposed to the two individuals.

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John G

Absolutely Awful

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2003

I can't think of a single positive about this book. Not only does it fail to teach anything about OLE DB development, the code presented simply does not work. (The author, however, claims that it will.) It actually gets worse, though. If you attempt to try to find any sort of updates, as mentioned by website in the book's introduction, you'll find that the relevant webpages don't exist!
So, what you get is:
-Reference information you can somewhere else (and more cheaply),
-Nothing to learn,
-Buggy code, and
-No way to update it
Do NOT buy this book for ANY reason, as the other reviewers have indicated.

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PLarsson

I concur -

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2000

I must agree with the first two reviewers that this book is extremely disappointing. The majority of the book is a simple catalog of interfaces and methods. There is absolutely no meaningful analysis or instruction. I too had trouble getting the code to work. And a question to the floor - why in the world would one want an agent in a "simple OLE DB consumer"?

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Steve Lent

OLE DB Development With Visual C++

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2000

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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Marlin Omar Conner

OLE DB Development With Visual C++

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2000

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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