The dBASE Reports Book: Creating Reports and Labels in dBASE Plus

The dBASE Report Designer can be a daunting tool, but with this book you can learn to use it to your best advantage, and create professional looking reports. Included are the following topics:

• Custom Reports and Classes
• Understanding the Report Engine and Designers’ Event Model
• Learning about the Report Object Event Sequences
• Grouped Reports
• Multi-Table Reports
• Calculated fields and Lookup fields
• Working with Labels
• Using a reportViewer
• Cross-Tab Reports
• Programmatic Control of Reports and changing reports on-the-fly in code
• And much more ...

The Second Edition has been upgraded for the current version of dBASE Plus (10.3.1 at the time it is being completed), the screen captures are completely re-done—and there are more of them, the tutorial aspect of the book is still there with enhancements throughout. A chapter detailing report and report objects with information about their properties, events and methods has been added. All the code and samples have been updated and more have been added as needed and verified that they work in the current versions of the software.

Ken Mayer has used dBASE both as a hobbyist and as a professional coder for 22 years, starting with dBASE III+ and working up to dBASE PLUS. Ken worked for Borland, Intl. for two years as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer on the Intrabuilder and dBASE products (Intrabuilder1.0, Visual dBASE 7.0 and 7.01), and also worked for five years for dBASE Inc. as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, also working on dBASE (Visual dBASE 7.5, dB2K and dBASE PLUS, as well as dQuery). Ken was a contributing editor to dBASE Advisor magazine for the one and a half years or so it was in publication. He served on Borland's Team B (volunteer technical support) when Borland owned dBASE, and has helped many in the dBASE developer community. At this time he is a member of the dBVIPS for dataBased Intelligence, Inc., doing the same things he did with Team B. He authored a good portion of the Knowledgebase articles that ship with dBASE PLUS, and authored the original dBASE PLUS tutorial. Ken is the author of The dBASE Book, the book that was released in late 2005 aimed at helping a developer learn to build applications in dBASE.