In Review

The entire focus of Week 2 was the creation of a single application. Day 8 started the week with application design and preparation. On Day 9, you created a custom form class that provided all the other forms with a set of toolbar buttons to navigate between each major form. To determine the best way to add querying capabilities to the application, you spent most of Day 10 examining the built-in query by form capabilities and timing queries with different property settings and table types. The benchmarks revealed the dBASE table type to be far faster than Paradox or Access tables. Day 11 put the discoveries from Day 10 to practical use in a quick search form. You created a dynamic grid on Day 12. The grid lets shoppers view and update multiple rows in a table with a single submit. By Day 13, you had searches down pat, and you expanded from searches on SQL expressions to using the canGetRow event to perform complex filters. The week ended with the completion of the shopping cart application. On Day 14, you created a form with active datalinks and a report with summaries. That brought the saga of the shopping cart application to a close and prepared you for the advanced topics of Week 3.