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The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted by |
Date submitted |
| Printed |
Page 1-12
Throughout |
There are a huge number of problems in this section of the book. I wrote to Jay Roxe
last week, outlining some of them -- both editorial problems, and technical errors.
The bottom line is that anybody who just tries to follow your instructions is bound
to wind up very frustrated before they ever get through Chapter 1.
The overall content of this book is excellent, and it's a real shame that it's
spoiled by a single bad chapter.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 1
n/a |
Team:
Because this book is old but useful, there is a workaround for the DB. Use Access locally if you don't have SqlSvr2005. Most of the examples will work.
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maniac |
Apr 19, 2011 |
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4.1.3
Amazon Web Service |
Amazon now requires a signature to make the call to the web service. Since people reading this book are like me and don't know how to do that stuff, I am now stuck at the end of 4.1. I can not continue on to finish the windows project and learn the rest of the information. The rest depends on the information return in the web service call which does not work.
Please include the signature code in the exmpale projects available for download in conjunction with this book with a readme file if needed.
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Cheri Fitzwater |
Sep 04, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 12
Example 1-1 |
Example 1-1 is supposed to show the auto-generated code for the binding navigator
Save Item Tool for the Event Click.
However, when I doubleclick on the save item tool to see this code in VS 2005, I see
the following code (which differs from the code in the text in example 1-1 in some
important ways).
Private Sub AuthorsBindingNavigatorSaveItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles AuthorsBindingNavigatorSaveItem.Click
Me.Validate()
Me.AuthorsBindingSource.EndEdit()
Me.AuthorsTableAdapter.Update(Me.PubsDataSet.authors)
End Sub
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 27
Example 1-5 Saving control location data when a user exits or closes Form1 |
My.Settings.MenuLocation = MenuStrip1.Location
Should be:
My.Settings.MenuStripLocation = MenuStrip1.Location
[Chapter 4] Throughout;
Amazon has re-vamped their API, so that the LibraryApp no longer compiles.
See the following thread:
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=40364&tstart=0
I adjusted the reference file, per the instructions given, and also made some other
changes (before I found this thread). However, there's an alternative link, in that
thread, which supposedly downloads the older version of the interface. That's
probably your best bet for a correction.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 98
bottom line |
The last sentence said retrieved book information can be saved for offline viewing.
Trying the sample code shows that Add Title/Auto-Add Title cannot add new information
to library.mdf.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 99
Entire chapter |
After following the direction in the book, to the letter, it does not function as
advertised. I decided to download the code from this site and it does not work
either.
Is there some sort of an update to this book?
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 102
Figure 4-6 |
ProgressBar control is displayed in Figure 4-6, however previous steps did not require it to be added, nor does it seem to get used throughout the exercise/example.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 107
figure 4-14 |
Team:
hint > drop table, then change label
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maniac |
Apr 19, 2011 |
| Printed |
Page 111
Amazon web reference |
Team:
AWS & UDDI obsolete
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maniac |
Apr 19, 2011 |
| Printed |
Page 117
after "'---download the cover image" |
The book provides this code:
Dim webReq As Net.HttpWebRequest = _
Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(.MediumImage.URL.ToString)
Dim webResp As Net.HttpWebResponse = webReq.GetResponse()
But if you have Option Strict On, it won't compile; you have to cast the types like
this:
Dim webReq As Net.HttpWebRequest = _
CType(Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(.MediumImage.URL.ToString), _
Net.HttpWebRequest)
Dim webResp As Net.HttpWebResponse = _
CType(webReq.GetResponse(), Net.HttpWebResponse)
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 119
Code Fragment Addtitle |
Titles are not being saved after restarting the app.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 122
figure 4-27 |
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maniac |
Apr 19, 2011 |
| Printed |
Page 124
last paragraph |
"To save changes to the database, you need to click the Save Data button ..."
The code behind the Save Data button seems to be correct but the data is not saved to
the database. When I close the Library program and then run it again the
Datagridview is empty -- the data has not been saved.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 140
Item 4 at bottom (and screenshot on following page) |
In my copy of VS 2005, instead of having an "Add Folder"->Regular Folder choice, I
had to choose "New Folder" instead (I haven't completed the project, but I believe
that will work.)
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 152
figure 5-4 |
Team:
Dim ISBN as String = ""
warning when debug if no value
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maniac |
Apr 19, 2011 |
| Printed |
Page 154
154 to 189 missing |
Weird problem. Print date September 2005. Bought from Amazon. Binding looks intact
but the book stops at page 154. Can you help?
ISBN 0-596-10071-X and UPC# 9 780596 100711 6
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 164
figure 5-4 |
Team:
When you get to checkout.aspx, the master images don't show up.
Add <%= Page.ResolveUrl("~")%> before image src.
<img alt="logo" id="imgLogo" src="<%= Page.ResolveUrl("~")%>images/oreilly_logo.gif" />
<img alt = "header" id="imgHeader" src="<%= Page.ResolveUrl("~")%>images/oreilly_header.gif" /><br />
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maniac |
Apr 19, 2011 |
| Printed |
Page 164
figure 5-25 |
Team:
When you get to checkout.aspx, the master images don't show up.
Add <%= Page.ResolveUrl("~")%> before image src.
<img alt="logo" id="imgLogo" src="<%= Page.ResolveUrl("~")%>images/oreilly_logo.gif" />
<img alt = "header" id="imgHeader" src="<%= Page.ResolveUrl("~")%>images/oreilly_header.gif" /><br />
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maniac |
Apr 19, 2011 |
| Printed |
Page 164
figure 5-25 |
Team:
I wasn't able to figure this one out, but I understand what's occurring.
Dim masterImage As Image
masterImage = CType(Page.Master.FindControl("imgHeader"), Image)
MsgBox(Page.Master.FindControl("imgHeader"))
If masterImage IsNot Nothing Then
The next line never fires as never true; therefore, image never changes. If change condition, then NullReferenceException because code is looking for image in wrong container.
masterImage.ImageUrl = "~/images/header_shopping.gif"
End If
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maniac |
Apr 19, 2011 |