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Alpha Five Made Easy, The Basics and More for Version 10 by Susan Hussey Bush |
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Step-by-step tutorial for learning to create desktop* database applications. No previous experience or programming knowledge necessary. Available in Hard Copy, Book on CD and Electronic Download Edition. This latest release of Susan Bush’s easy-to-follow tutorial guides you from the initial development of a database through designing field rules, sets, mapped tables, forms and reports. It then continues with creating buttons and hyperlinks, using operations to manipulate your data without programming and adding images to your database. You’ll learn how to find, sort and filter records and create checkboxes and radio buttons, list boxes and tree controls. Add all of that to super controls that add sophisiticated features like alphabet button and drop down browse searches, calendars, clocks and sliders that navigate records; connect your data to Google, Yahoo, MSN or create your own Internet template. And there's lots more! |
- The step-by-step instructions provide a hands-on learning experience. You will use the included databases to work your way through each section.
Alpha Five uses .dbf files, but suppose you have an SQL or other database file type? No problem. There are two ways to connect to your data, actively or passively. Active tables create a live connection to the data; Passive tables produce a quick snapshot than can be refreshed at any time. 
It’s all in the book!
Ready to switch over from Alpha Four to Alpha Five, but not sure how? Frances Peake tells you how in the special chapter on making the transition. It’s all in the book!
While we highly recommend the latest version of the software because it makes application development even easier, we also continue to make previous editions of the book available for those who prefer to stay with their current version.\
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Your book has been just what I wanted, someone to take me step by step and walk me through every little detail of learning Alpha Five from the ground up. It feels like you are right there with me!
I am coming from the DOS programming world (FoxBase+) so the move into the Windows world has been a little traumatic at times. OK, very traumatic. Like learning to walk all over again. So I needed someone to show me the ropes. And I found that person in your book.
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