This book appears to be in direct competition with mine... at first glance it does. Once you read the book you find that indeed the emphasis is entirely different. This book explains a lot of the theory and the use of the PFC's and that appears to be the purpose of the book. It is exemplary in achieving that purpose. It covers all of the areas that are of great concern to the typical programmer in exquisite detail. My book...
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It is exactly what the Title says: A programmers reference. This is a reference that gets constant use. It lays out the PFC in a way that lets you quickly become familiar with what it can do and how to do it. The only reference that I have found that opened up the PFC for real world use. I have recommended it to several of my associates. They agree that this is an excellent investment for the PowerBuilder Programmer...
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Experienced PFC developers may still learn something new from this book. It is well written, well presented, and has good script examples. I recommend this book to anyone using, or about to use, the PFC on a PowerBuilder project.
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The book tied up all of the loose ends of the PFC service based architecture that you got from the PB manuals. Explanations and examples of the PFC events and especially the PRE and Post processing events.
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