• It contains over 2 hours of audio, hundreds of lines offully-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 experiencedprogrammers, Core Visual Basic 5, by Gary Cornell, which providesend-to-end coverage of allthe major database interfaces.
• Perfect for Visual Basic programmers who want to write programs thattalk to SQL databases and who want to create database-driven Web sites.

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

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

The book, Core Visual Basic 5, by best-selling author Gary Cornell andMicrosoft VB5 development team member Dave Jezak, complements the CD-ROMperfectly. It covers the development of ActiveX EXEs and DLLs;object-oriented VB5 programming techniques; profiling, testing andoptimizing VB5 apps; the VB5 class wizard, and much more. If you're anexperienced programmer who wants to use VB5 for client/side databaseapplications, you finally have a world-class, cost-effective trainingsolution!