Understatement
To say that Chapter Four has a few errors is an understatement! Not one of the examples is working and correcting them is a real head scratcher. I'm sorry, but the content of book is pretty good, but the examples fail to impress. I don't understand why the author has not attempted to correct any of these. It's probably an issue of the author used a beta version to crank out his examples, but the fact that they haven't been validated is beyond excuse.
What's most interesting is that the forms won't even appear because of the underlying code behind them are so far off. Column names are rife with duplicates, in order to get an example working you have to painstakingly rename columns in the designer code.
There is more, but I think I made my point...
I needed these examples, just like I needed the book... He skims a great deal over the technical details, you NEED these examples to fully understand the stuff he skips over. It's true, it's a complicated topic to tackle, I commend the author for his scholarship, but it does fall short in the most basic ways.
The book was rushed to press I'm sure.. to coincide with the 2005 release, that is typical. But the author should be jonny-on-the-spot getting the examples to work with the official release.
Just my 10 cents...
Ron
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