Table Of ContentPART I. VISUAL DBASE INTRODUCTIONS. 1. Introduction to Visual dBASE. 2. Visual dBASE Tools Overview. 3. Introduction to Objects and Visual dBASE. PART II. BASIC OBJECT-ORIENTED CONCEPTS AND VISUAL dBASE. 4. Moving From DOS to Windows. 5. Working with Events, Handlers, Methods and CodeBlocks. 6. The Form The Focus. 7. The Class The Driving Force. PART III. ADVANCED PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES. 8. Preprocessor, Memory Variables, Sessions, Compiling... 9. Testing Your Programs. 10. Intense Workout of Objects & Classes. PART IV. WORKING WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD. 11. Visual dBASE, DDE, OLE, OLE2 and Multimedia. 12. The Window's API and DLLs. 13. Working With Custom Controls. 14. Visual dBASE, Client/Server, and SQL. PART V. BUILDING A WORKING MODEL. 15. Building the Application: Piece-by-Piece. Appendices. Part 1: Listing of all the Stock CLASSES. Part 2: The Visual dBASE File Extensions. Part 3: New and Enhanced Commands of Visual dBASE. Part 4: Visual dBASE and Windows 95. Part 5: Visual dBASE and Security.
SynopsisA comprehensive guide to Visual dBASE 5.5, the new state-of-the-art dBASE implementation for Windows. With Borland's new Visual dBASE 5.5, dBASE is back, and stronger than ever. This is the book dBASE developers need to make the transition. Written by the primary instructor of Borland's dBASE for Windows training school, this book reflects the questions and concerns of more than 3,000 key corporate clients and developers., This text, intended to be of interest to anyone with a working knowledge of any database, provides a guide to dBase for Windows 5.5. It contains thorough descriptions of the new features of the program.