A Complete Visual Basic Database Training Course: The Ultimate Cyber Classroom Book

The complete, multimedia introduction to developing client-side database applications with Visual Basic.

• Includes Visual Basic Database Programming Multimedia Cyber Classroom, the complete interactivemultimedia tutorial on Visual Basic 5 client/server application development.
  • It contains over 2 hours of audio, hundreds of lines of fully-tested, live Visual Basic code, interactive exercises, animations, full-text searching, hyperlinking, and more!
  • Comes with the world's best guide to Visual Basic 5 for experienced programmers, Core Visual Basic 5, by Gary Cornell, which provides end-to-end coverage of allthe major database interfaces.
  • Perfect for Visual Basic programmers who want to write programs that talk to SQL databases and who want to create database-driven Web sites.

  There is unprecedented demand for Visual Basic client/server database development skills, but until now these skills were difficult and expensive to acquire. This package brings together comprehensive, interactive, self-paced training that will allow any experienced programmer to start creating real-world VB5database applications - fast.

  Start with an introduction to client/server development, SQL Server, the Microsoft Jet Engine, and ODBC. Move on to more advanced database concepts, including normalization, referential integrity, and ISAM databases. Understand all the major database interfaces, including Data Access Object (DAO), Remote Data Object (RDO), ODBC Direct, ODBC API, and the new ActiveX Data Object (ADO). Topics also include Stored Queries, Stored Procedures, and the Microsoft Transaction Server. Finally, learn about OLE automation and Distributed COM, Microsoft's technology for distributed client/server development.

  The book, Core Visual Basic 5, by best-selling author Gary Cornell and Microsoft VB5 development team member Dave Jezak, complements the CD-ROM perfectly. It covers the development of ActiveX EXEs and DLLs; object-oriented VB5 programming techniques; profiling, testing and optimizing VB5 apps; the VB5 class wizard, and much more. If you're an experienced programmer who wants to use VB5 for client/side database applications, you finally have a world-class, cost-effective training solution!