Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS

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Summary: Not very good
Review: Well my title may be a little misleading, but for a book entitled "BEGINNING E-Commerce", it is not very good at teaching basic concepts. The author covers many things that a beginner may have a tough time grasping, such as building your own VB objects to connect to things like a database (Why not just keep it simple and do it straight out of ASP?). All the things he discusses could have all been done had he simply gave examples using VB Objects, actually explained them well, then simply used the same components straight out of ASP. If youre a beginner you may be dissapointed.

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Summary: The Dog's Bollocks
Review: You need to read a few other books (preferably Wrox one's) before you get stuck into this, but nevertheless this is a very easy to follow book, and contains some great HTML and ASP tricks to make your e-commerce application more maintainable and scalable. I suggest reading "Beginning Components for ASP" and "Beginning ASP" from Wrox before reading this. What's more it's written by a Brit so it can't be bad (not that I'm biased at all ! ).