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      • ▼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
        • ▶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?
          • Part One: Wherein the Author Meets Method
          • Part Two: Wherein Questions Are Raised and Only Some of Them Are Not Answered
          • Part Three: Wherein the Genuine Motivation Behind the Method Is Revealed
          • Part Four: Wherein Our Historical View Is Updated
          • Part Five: For in the Body of These Methodologies Lie the Seeds of Their Failure
          • Part Six: In Which the Newer Methods and Their Predilections Are Explicated and the Nature of Their Failings Noted (Also, a Saving Grace Is Found by Accident)
          • Part Seven: In Which the Notion of Development Success as Posited in Part Five Is Examined and Some of the Precursors to the New New Methods Are Documented
          • ▼Part Eight: In Which the Consequences of Design Deficit Are Detailed
            • Scaling
            • Performance
            • Flexibility
            • Usability
            • Maintenance
          • Part Nine: Wherein the Followers of Dynamic and Prototyping Methods Are Compared with Jobbing Builders of the Victorian and Edwardian Eras
          • Part Ten: Wherein the Author Takes a Closer Look at a Method with a Different Genesis
          • Part Eleven: In Which the Author Discusses Where Such Methods Can and Cannot Succeed--and Why Those Are the Cases
        • The Mandelbrot Set (International), Ltd.
      • ▶Developing International Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT
      • ▶Hardcore Visual Basic
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      • ▶Inside OLE
      • ▶Microsoft Jet Database Engine Programmer's Guide
      • PC 99 System Design Guide
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      • ▶Understanding Thin-Client/Server Computing
      • ▶The Windows User Experience
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