Rating: Summary: Unquesionably the best Review: Far and away the best of the four books I have read on VI 6. Very comprehensive and a fantastic learning tool for beginners and experts alike
Rating: Summary: Not worth it - a real waste of time and money Review: I bought the book to get a good reference on the use of Visual Interdev. The book has one short chapter on the tool and it is weak. The book tries to teach everything about developing web sites. It spends more time on Frontpage than VI. It really felt like the authors did not know VI and were just writing everything they could think of to fill up the book.
Rating: Summary: The book is not about Interdev Review: I bought the book to get a good reference on the use of Visual Interdev. The book has one short chapter on the tool and it is weak. The book tries to teach everything about developing web sites. It spends more time on Frontpage than VI. It really felt like the authors did not know VI and were just writing everything they could think of to fill up the book.
Rating: Summary: Do not buy this book. Review: I have learned more about InterDev from an article in Web Tech magazine (distributed freely)than this 700 page book. The book goes blaa blaa wala wala about nothing important. All I need to know is how to create databases on sql, web projects and connect the two, other Db connectivity and the tricks to present Db output as I like. A section for trouble shooting would showoff the writers expertise, but may not for $49. Buy this book if you want to learn FrontPage, you'll find about 150 pages packed with info about FrontPage. Too bad the writer forgot he was writing for InterDev.
Rating: Summary: This book is difficult to search and unhelpful Review: I have used many books to help me learn and reference ASP and this one has by far been the worst. I would not even waste the time to order it. I am usually not this vocal about a bad book, but I would hate for others to waste their time trying to use this book as a Visual Interdev reference.
Rating: Summary: NEEDS AN UPDATE!!!!! Review: IMO the book is average at best.It was obviously written based on an early beta version of the product. Examples, explanations and screen shots often did not match the product. Worse still some of the example code in the book is different than that on the CD. I do not have a problem with early release books provided the publishers and authors provide on-line updates. Mansfield and Revette have failed to do so according to the IDG site. Better to wait for a newer title.
Rating: Summary: Waste of Time, Money, Embarrasing Review: Should have never been published.
Rating: Summary: Save your money on this one. Review: This book is not a Bible at all. It's a introduction for beginners to Visual Interdev at best. It hardly talked anything about Scripting Object Model or Design-Time Controls. Most other Interdev 6.0 books at least attempted on these topics. This book simply avoided these topics. In that sense it's merely teaching people to use Interdev 6.0 like Interdev 1.0, even beginners should probably avoid this one.
Rating: Summary: Not a thorough VI6 supplement! Review: This book is NOT the Bible for VI 6 - it is more about general web development. There is nothing about the scripting object model (other than one paragraph on page 564). I need a book to help explain how to use VI6, not how to create web sites. I'm sorry I spent the $$.
Rating: Summary: Not worth it - a real waste of time and money Review: This book was a complete waste of time and at the end of it I didn't feel like I knew even a small fraction of what interdev was about. All the book did was waste my time.
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