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    • ▶Developing International Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT
    • ▼Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 5
      • Foreword
      • ▶Preface
      • ▶Chapter 1: On Error GoTo Hell
      • ▶Chapter 2: Patterns of Cooperation in Bytes and Blood
      • ▶Chapter 3: Empowering Your Users' Reports with Visual Basic 5
      • ▶Chapter 4: Transferring Information Over the Internet
      • ▶Chapter 5: Changing Your Approach to Visual Basic Coding
      • ▶Chapter 6: Migration Issues in Visual Basic 5
      • ▶Chapter 7: Staying in Control
      • ▶Chapter 8: Minutiae
      • ▶Chapter 9: How Does the Year 2000 Problem Affect Visual Basic?
      • ▶Chapter 10: Well, at Least It Compiled OK!
      • ▶Chapter 11: Multimedia and the User Interface in Business Applications
      • ▶Chapter 12: So You Want to Add Another User!
      • ▼Chapter 13: Database Access Options
        • ▼Introduction
          • ▼Choosing Your Database Access Method
            • When to Use the DAO Layer
            • When to Go Directly to the ODBC Layer
            • When to Go Somewhere in Between DAO and ODBC (RDO)
            • When to Use a Proprietary Protocol
          • ▶DAO
          • ▶RDO
          • ODBCDirect
          • ▶ODBC
          • ▶DB-Library
          • ▶OLE DB
          • ADO
          • Postscript
      • ▶Chapter 14: Programming on Purpose
      • ▶Chapter 15: Didn't I Write That Function Last Week?
      • ▶Chapter 16: How to Juggle 30 Balls Blindfolded
      • ▶APPENDIX A Coding Conventions
      • APPENDIX B Changes in the DAO Structure
      • APPENDIX C Windows 3.11 API Calls
      • APPENDIX D Microsoft Product Date Limits and Formats
      • ▶APPENDIX E Is There Madness in Methods?
      • The Mandelbrot Set (International), Ltd.
    • ▶Hardcore Visual Basic
    • ▶Inside OLE
    • ▶Microsoft Jet Database Engine Programmer's Guide
    • ▶PC 97 Hardware Design Guide
    • ▶PC 98 System Design Guide
    • ▶Programming the Windows 95 User Interface
    • ▶Understanding Thin-Client/Server Computing
    • ▶The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design
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