||boek: dBase IV Power Tools|Advanced Functions, Procedures and Utilities|Bantam Books

||door: Malcolm C. Rubel

||taal: en
||jaar: 1989
||druk: ?
||pag.: 963p
||opm.: paperback|like new|inhoud vd diskette kan bezorgd worden

||isbn: 0-553-34768-3
||code: 1:000716

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Manage dBASE IV, Don't Let It Manage You

This book/disk package provides more than 175 pre-programmed functions, procedures, and utilities that immediately extend the power of dBASE IV. These programs are contained in a procedure file that can be included as is in your own applications.

Among the programs included are:

• A point-and-shoot Query-By-Example program
• A context-sensitive Help development program and Help display engine
• A one line popup menu program
• A popup calendar utility and a full set of time and date handling functions
• Printer control functions and procedures
• A full set of financial functions
• Many data entry and data validation aids as well as programs to control multiple screen data entry programs
• A full set of application security programs

All programs come with full source code listings in the book and on the diskettes. The book also contains a manual reference page for each of the procedures and functions, giving complete syntax, program explanations, and examples of usage. Along with the code, the book provides insights into why the programs are written the way they are, to help you avoid obscure traps and pitfalls.

In addition to procedures and functions optimized for dBASE IV the book also contains a complete set of procedures and functions for Clipper, the dBASE compiler from Nantucket Corp. Both the program source code and a Clipper link library containing the functions are also included with the book.

"Creating effective dBase applications takes more than just building your vocabulary of commands and functions. It requires a grasp of the subtleties and an understanding of how to leverage the language's many features. dBASE IV Power Tools is well stocked with useful UDF's and powerful procedures that you can use to minimize your coding effort, to make it easier to operate the systems you create, and to hone your dBASE programming skills." --MARC SCHNAPP, PRESIDENT, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DATABSE DEVELOPERS

"Mac has given us a fantastic book. If you are new to functions, this book will save you hundreds of hours in coming up to speed. For old pros, the on disk library is worth far more than the cost of the book. If you thought you knew it all, try Mac's 'UDFs in a Picture clause' technique. That's just one nugget in this gold mine" --MARTY RINEHART, CHAIRMAN WALLSOFT, INC.

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Provides over 175 pre-programmed functions, procedures, and utilities to expand the capabilities of dBASE IV

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--- Over (foto 2): Malcolm C. Rubel ---

Mac Rubel is a well known dBASE writer and consultant. He has a monthly column on dBASE IV in the premier microcomputer database magazine, Data Based Advisor and is a frequent contributor to Byte Magazine.

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Malcolm C. Rubel is president of Performance Dynamics Associates, a business applications consulting firm with offices in New York City and Bar Harbor, Maine. He is the author of several books on the Xbase language, including FoxPro 2.0 Power Tools. He is a contributing editor to FoxPro Advisor and has had a monthly column appearing in at least one publication for the past 11 years. He is the author of the FoxPro Power Developer's Library, a cross-platform suite of utilities for FoxPro 2.5/2.6 and Visual FoxPro; Raidar, the Development Debugger for FoxPro 2.5/2.6; and Visual FoxPro; and Visual Raidar for Visual FoxPro. Malcolm has spoken at many national and regional conferences and has been a Microsoft MVP for the past four years.

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