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Summary: Not worth it
Review: The good reviews here on Amazon helped me make this book my choice. Sorry to say it hasn't gone so well. The first few chapters are ok (I learned a lot), and the writing style is fine for me, but the errors make it frustrating to use. I started by writing down the errors that leave you wondering "Did I do something wrong, or is this another error in the text?", and stopped after 8th one. I don't think the best way to learn is to constantly correct errors in your textbook. The last straw for me was the database chapters. The book does not come with a CD-ROM with the examples.. The database chapters reference sample databases to learn by, but without the sample databases from the website, the chapters are very difficult to learn anything from. I'm cutting my losses, and beginning my search for another Interdev book. I recommend you learn from my experience and don't repeat my [mistake].
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Summary: Nothing that can't be found in "Help menu"
Review: This book is not useful for developing websites for the WWW. I have been programming and building sites for several years and wouldn't consider myself novice. Still, I couldn't understand which components worked for both IE and NS and which should be used on intranets with MS products only. Book is also poorly organized and very difficult to follow. After reading it for 3 times, I turned back to hand-writing ASP-scripts and SQL for my database-driven sites.
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Summary: Sub Beginner Level
Review: This book is not worth buying and, if you have any web design experience, not worth reading. It deals with very surface level concepts. It lacks the explination of what is accually happening underneath the WYSIWYG interface.
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Summary: An excellent way to get started with Visual InterDev 6
Review: This book will provide you with a fast way to get up and going in Visual Interdev. Coverage of the basics of DTCs is excellent. VID has a lot of breadth and requires knowledge of ASP, which you will be better equipped to understand after you read this book. After reading this book I found the on-line ASP docs from Microsoft sufficient. Mr. Amundsen's book provides some very nice information on ADO. You get information on using it both at a low-level and using DTCs. Learn the low-level approach first and the DTCs will make much more sense. The author supports a mailing list and web site with some great tutorials and a FAQ area. The list and site with the author's support constitute a great resource for learning the more advanced topics.
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Summary: Not bad... but not enough.
Review: This book will serve it's purpose well for the beginner, it touches some very important and interesting issues that were covered in other books, and the author uses that claim in far too many subjects, in my opinion. It features a lot of text that involves the very important issues of using InterDev, but what about the technologies that make it all work? ASP, VBScript, SQL, ADO, HTML are all beeing discussed, but in a manner to make you ask for more... much more. It's a good book to play a first step, but if controlling InterDev isn't your problem... you'll need another book.
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Summary: Great Book -- But only as a basic introduction.
Review: This is an excellent book if you've never used Interdev and want to see what it's all about. The chapters on databases are especially well written. It does a great job of showing you how to manage your odbc database from within VID. However, intermediate ASP programmers will find that most of the examples are somewhat simplistic and aren't enough for a real world web application. The book's heavy emphasis on using DTCs is great but I was left wondering how to modify the code written by the wizard to allow for more flexibility and that's just not covered in this book. However, it's still worth the read--if only for the database stuff.
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Summary: Want to learn InterDev, VBScript, and ASP? This is THE book!
Review: You simply cannot find a better introductory book than this one on Visual InterDev 6. Michael Amundsen gives an oustanding tutorial on the InterDev environment, then moves on to build a solid understanding of planning, designing, and implementing web applications. This book will quickly and easily bring the beginning web developer up to speed on Visual InterDev 6, HTML forms, Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), Active Server Pages (ASP), and delivering database content to the web... everything you need for real-world server-side web development. The author walks the reader through tons of step-by-step hands-on examples with crystal-clear explanations. And the organized format of the book makes it a great reference that I go back to again and again. When I set out to learn ASP, I wanted to learn the only integrated development environment (IDE) that was built for ASP - Microsoft's Visual InterDev. Take it from me, a professional web application developer... this is THE book to get started with.
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