Book review #1: Title: Database programming using vb

Focus: Database programming

Domain: Accounting Software

Tools used: VB 2008, and SQL Server for the windows os.

This book takes you through the steps of developing an accounting software. The first few chapters cover  topics like vb and sql server. Next, the steps for developing an accounting software are outlined.
The steps are fairly detailed and some of them are

1. Developing the Masters
2. Creating the Project
3. Writing Standard Modules
4. Creating the Accounting Database
5. Exploring the Accounting Database
6. Populating the Group Table with Chart of Accounts
7. Designing & Programming the Accounts Form
8. Programming the Account Form
9. Writing a Constructor
10. Programming the Load() event procedure
11. Saving Account details into the DataSet
12. Moving to a particular row in the DataSet
13. Achieving error free/rapid data entry by enable/disable controls
14. Validating the data entered in the Amount TextBox control
15. Developing the Transactions
16. Developing the Tran Class
17. Designing and Programming the Journal form

A separate chapter is dedicated for programming reports which may be useful for crystal reports programmers.

This book will be interesting to programmers who are starting with software development. They can pick a
few tricks quickly and the book seems to be fairly priced. These books may be useful to students who wish to do a project which may of use in their careers. Of particular interest to me was the handling of the layers with a separate layer for business logic, present layer and data layer. Even though it is a difficult concept to grasp at the first read, this concept makes designing of applications cleaner and easier to read. With the advent of web applications, multi-layered applications are in vogue. In fact, most companies are seeing if programmers are aware of this mode of programming while recruiting.

With ERP becoming a major attraction for engineering students, this book can be an inexpensive way for programmers to start development and get a feel of application development.

Being a software programmer myself, I found the book quite useful. Finally, a book you can use. Click on the title for detailed contents of the book.

Visual Basic programming and accounting software software development

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