Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
Fourth Edition

Data Access with Microsoft Visual Basic 4 and Microsoft SQL Server 6

Microsoft Visual Basic is the language of choice for developing a vast
array of applications, including more and more applications that converse
with SQL Server. Yet comprehensive, hands-on guidance for creating those
front-end applications has been hard to come by. Until now. Microsoft
Press introduces William R. Vaughn's HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO VISUAL BASIC &
SQL SERVER, Fourth Edition-the developer's road map for data access using
Visual Basic. 

This greatly expanded and updated fourth edition retains the down-to-earth
style that created a near-cult following for the first three editions of
the HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE. Readers of Bill Vaughn's previous works will find
the same caliber of heavy-duty problem-solving advice presented in a more
reader-friendly volume. 

In addition to notes, programming tips, and tables available nowhere else,
the book includes detailed information on fundamentals of client/server
architecture, elements of a development workstation, and designing
successful client/server applications. 

In the core of the book, Vaughn offers plenty of "how it works" and "how to
work it" information for designing, coding, debugging, and tuning
applications that use Visual Basic to access SQL Server through four
programming models: 

* The Microsoft Jet database engine and data access objects
  (the Jet/DAO interface) 
* Remote data objects and the RemoteData control
  (the RDO/RDC interface) 
* The Visual Basic Library for SQL Server (the VBSQL interface) 
* The Open Database Connectivity application programming interface
  (the ODBC API) 

This new edition also includes a CD with 16-bit and 32-bit sample code, a
prerelease copy of the VBSQL OCX, and more. In short, HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE
TO VISUAL BASIC & SQL SERVER, Fourth Edition, offers everything readers
need to combine Visual Basic and SQL Server in powerful ways, more quickly
and easily than ever. 

William R. Vaughn, a 24-year veteran of the computer industry and author of
several other books, is a senior technical writer in the Microsoft Visual
Basic user education group, serving as subject-matter expert on
client/server and Jet/DAO database topics. As Bill Vaughn's engaging voice
demonstrates, he is an independent thinker whose views don't always
coincide with those of "the other Bill." 

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Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server
by William R. Vaughn.
$44.95, 656 pages
ISBN: 1-55615-906-4
Pub. Date: May 28, 1996

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