As a new developer, you might think that certification is out of your reach, or not know where to begin your preparation, or how far you have to go to reach your goal. This study guide will assist you in efficient, focused VFP certification exam preparation. Covers both the Desktop and Distributed exams in one book!

As an in-depth reference for sophisticated corporate developers or Visual FoxPro consultants, this title teaches developers how to develop Internet enabled applications including Active Server Pages and Active Documents. The CD-ROM contains the FoxPro Foundation Classes--a fully developed set of class libraries that developers can begin using immediately.

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Databases brings the elements of a database together using easy to understand language, perfect for the true beginner. It not only gives specific hands on practice, but also provides an overview of designing, maintaining and using a database. This book covers what databases are used for, why databases are important, why the design of the database is important, database normalization, keys to solid database design, differences in types of databases, and indexes--what they are, how we use them, and why they are important.

Produced by the award-winning Microsoft Mastering series team, this is the ultimate self-study solution for transitioning from desktop to enterprise development. Companion lab exercises provide learn-by-doing practice with critical programming tasks. By the end of the course, students have created a full-featured enterprise solution. The CD contains complete code from the lessons.

Institutional research (IR) is a growing, applied, and interdisciplinary area that attracts people from a variety of fields, including computer programmers, statisticians, and administrators and faculty from every discipline to work in archiving, analyzing, and reporting on all aspects of higher education information systems. Cases on Institutional Research Systems is a reference book for institutional research, appealing to novice and expert IR professionals and the administrators and policymakers that rely on their data. By presenting a variety of institutional perspectives, the book depicts the challenges and solutions to those in higher education administration, and state, federal, and even international accreditation.

The major enhancements in this edition are the coverage of the Microsoft Transaction and integration with Microsoft SQL Server--the two most important additions in version 6. In addition, this book provides a "visual development" foundation for those programmers moving to Visual FoxPro.

Visual FoxExpress has been helping FoxPro developers build feature rich Fox applications for longer than anyone else. With Creating Visual FoxPro Applications with Visual FoxExpress, you'll learn the nuts and bolts of application development with VFE, starting with setting up a project and continuing on through user interfaces, reports, and security. Bob Archer and Dan Jurden have years of VFE experience under their belts, and it shows as you'll learn dozens of tips and tricks while getting a firm grounding on the entire application development process.