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Summary: Cuts through the BS and gets to the facts!
Review: I bought 5 other VB6 books with a chapter here and a few pages there on VB6 internet programming. Carl Franklin put it all in one place. The info is the best and the examples can be immediatly integrated with your applications. Carl Franklin runs a website that helps. When I had a question he responded within 1 day and soved my problem. In the future if I see a Franklin book on a topic I am interested in I would buy it sight unseen.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I bought this book some months ago expecting an increase in understanding programming TCP/IP protocols used across the Internet. I hoped to get a better understanding of Winsock programming. I did not.The book is acceptable, I suppose, if you are content doing VB development strictly using the Winsock Active X controls. I would have preferred that Franklin focus more on the out-of-box control than the DSS (a vendor) Winsock control. I was particularly annoyed that some of the examples just would not work with the out-of-box control. I did get a little from the book. However, I've read better, and, not to repeat myself, it was not what I was expecting.
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Summary: If you run out of toilet page,use this book to finish wiping
Review: I brought this good to learn how to use Winsock. What I receive was a dsWinsock control and a lecture from Carl about why he doesn't like WinSock. HEY CARL GET A GRIP. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK.
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Summary: How To Use Third Party Controls
Review: I can't believe I spent $ to learn how to use Dolphin System's OCX control. Now I'd have to shell out another $100 if I want to use the OCX without the annoying splash screen. This is the worst case of fraud as you have to slip through TWENTY-FIVE pages before you're told the book is based on a third-party shareware tool. If you must use an OCX control, buy it from the developer directly and save yourself the $ for this book.
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Summary: Reprint of previous version
Review: I have previous version. I agree with previous reader comment. Nothing news. Same as previous version. Just like typical UC text book. change the color of cover. slap on the next version. There you have it, new price for new version, with no added info... same old..same old...
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I have the book for 2 weeks and I am on page 20. Why? I'm reading another Interent programming book. Why? Well I did not buy this book to learn how to program with a control. While you are reading let me plug a control (free of charge) - Socket Tools by Catalyst. Why? It will talk (FTP) to an Unix box. Unfortunately other controls will only admit that there is something at the other end, no interaction. I must say that the author's description of the book on this site is very different from the one that was here last week. That one was very belligerent and adversarial. And if I had read that description before buying the book, well, I wouldn't have. I hope that it will redeem itself as a reference book in the future. Why? It's collecting dust.
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Summary: Good winsock discussion but mostly same as VB 4 book
Review: I have the Visual Basic 4 version of this book. The text is essentially the same as far as the Winsock programming. Though Franklin uses a proprietary dsSocket control (demo included) the techniques can easily be applied to the MS Winsock control. I agree with others that the book is really just a reprint of the VB 4 version with some minor changes. If you don't have the VB 4 version of this book I would recommend it. If you do then this may not be worth it. In any case it does have the best discussion of SMTP, POP3, and Winsock I have run across in a book
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Summary: Does not explain tools availble in VB, but rather shareware
Review: I realize that Carl Franklin is a VB authority, which is part of my disappointment. He's the kind of guy that an intermediate guy like myself would love to have around to ask questions and seek guidance from. Overall it's not a bad book, but I was VERY put off by this one thing: When you buy a book titled "Visual Basic 6 Internet Programming" you would think it safe to assume that it would teach you using the tools made available by VB6. Not so. Instead, (and you have no way of knowing this until after you buy the book) it dismisses the winsock tool made available by VB6 altogether and teaches you using a shareware control that you have to purchase if you're serious about using it. In other words, you pay for the book only to learn that the book is useless unless you are also willing to pay for the shareware. Which might be a good thing to do, but you feel cheated by the fact that you're not given that option up front. It wouldn't be so bad if Carl had at least spent some time explaining the use of the winsock control on some level, but instead he dismisses it completely. It felt like a cheap marketing ploy for the shareware. That might not have been Carl's intent, but it felt that way.
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Summary: Sorry, but this book is not worth any amount of money
Review: I want to learn REAL internet programming. This book relies too much on the dolphin systems dll. It is like telling someone you are going to teach them how to write a browser program, and then having your instruction be "go to microsoft and download IE6. Voila! you have a browser!".
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Summary: How to use dsSocket in VB ? No Winscok.dll or MSWinsock.ocx
Review: I won't have problem when I am reading a journal, but reading a book about what an ocx can do ! give me a break. With due regards to the author, I would take a pass on this type of book. I was about to send this book abroad, simple winsock codes puzzled me and changed my mind returned this book with grace. I could not rate this book at all, as it is all about dssock.ocx, no use to my group.To pass this screen I chose one star.
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