Today there are three types of report writing tools: 1) the now classic interactive report writers, i.e. Crystal Reports, 2) source code-only alternatives, i.e. VS-View and Preview, both from ComponentOne, Inc., and 3) tools which are a cross between an interactive report writer and source code, i.e. ActiveReports from DataDynamics, Inc. and VS-View Reporting Edition from ComponentOne, Inc.. The goal of "Enterprise Reports Using VB6 and VB .NET," is to discuss report writing from a developer's perspective. Carl Ganz and Jon Kilburn cover the programming of reports using such tools as VS-View...

"Palm Programming in Basic" is designed as a comprehensive reference for professional programmers to help get them up to speed on AppForge, NS Basic, and CASL. Jon Kilburn is President of an Internet Wireless Applications Development firm and has developed dozens of applications for the Palm OS and Windows CE platforms. Kilburn is also the editor of Pinnacle Publishing's "PDA Developer" newsletter and the senior chair for the PDA DevCon developer conference. As such, Kilburn is uniquely poised to teach developers the effective use of these languages. Kilburn explains to readers how to...