Rod Stephens $49.99, 448 pages, 1999 Wiley Computer Publishing ISBN 0-471-33345-X Paperback with CD An arsenal of more than 170 proven techniques and ready-to-run source code for better and more efficient programming 173 detailed example programs demonstrating basic, intermediate, and advanced techniques for solving real-world programming problems.

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This book teaches beginning, intermediate, and advanced techniques that you will find useful for your every day programming needs. Learn to work with numbers, manipulate databases, handle text, format output, get the most out of ListBox, ComboBox, TabStrip, and other controls, use menus, manage forms, and much more.

What's Included and What's Not?

This book is basically a powered-up collection of HowTo's. In some ways, they are similar to those on this site's How To pages. Many were based on examples there.

However, the HowTo's on the Web are fairly minimal. They are provided as examples and are not explained. The book's examples are fully explained with descriptions that give extra insight into their working and possible uses. The book also includes many examples that have not appeared elsewhere.