Customer Rating: 
Summary: Very Specialized
Comment: I am a technical person who thought the word "Foundation" in the title would be a good starting point. Howver, "Foundation Class Librry" is a very specific thing for programmers who already know the software. Makes a good doorstop.
Customer Rating:
Summary: that's right, its worthless
Comment: If you read in other reviews that this book is mostly a reprint of the Sybase documentation, believe it
Customer Rating:
Summary: This is simply the online documentation in a book!
Comment: This book does nothing more than put the online documentation in a book form. There is no real help for developers trying to learn tricks or just how to use the PFC. While it is a slight improvement from the documentation, it should have been what was provided from Powersoft. This book is a waste of time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: just ok !
Comment: The book describes a few things about PFC. Interestingly half the time, to know about any detailed services of a particular type it says "More information about 'xyz' can be found in Powerbuilder Online Books and PFC online help." Then why do you need to buy this book ?????
Customer Rating:
Summary: A $_ help file
Comment: This will serve as an expensive guide for those who simply hate printing topics from the PFC help file or feel they may be missing something from supplied documentation. Save for two very basic examples (e.g. page 407 - pfc treeview object) and a CD containing a hastily developed sample application, the reader would most certainly learn more by opening up objects in the PFC layer and studying the source code. To date, there still remains a shortage of documentation/case studies on proper object-oriented or service-oriented use of Powerbuilder for large-scale enterprise application development, and this book does little to fill that void.
