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Summary: Web Classes from Scratch - a Good Start
Review: Finally a good book which is about the overlooked and perhaps forgotten webclasses. This book is very good introduction for all Visual Studio programmers who are waiting for the new release of the MS Visual Studio products. You get a good view of what is allready possible with VB and what is going to be the solution for Microsoft regarding their upgrade for the Visual Studio products. A perfect book for people who wants program e-commerce solutions in a fly...
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Summary: If you are new to webclasses this book is a good start.
Review: I Found this book very easy to follow as Jesse explains webclasses by one big example. I miss some explaining about "extra special features", but this book is good if you want a quick start. Also look at the book "Visual Basic Developer's Guide to Asp and Iis" thoug.
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Summary: If you are new to webclasses this book is a good start.
Review: I Found this book very easy to follow as Jesse explains webclasses by one big example. I miss some explaining about "extra special features", but this book is good if you want a quick start. Also look at the book "Visual Basic Developer's Guide to Asp and Iis" thoug.
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Summary: WATCH OUT FOR VS6SP3 AND THIS CODE!
Review: I like this book. It is interesting the polar opinions on it: a few hate it. ISTM that they don't understand that the book is a work of clear pedagogy. These people seem threatened by something that is well-written, almost as if it punctures their cloud of confusion..Fascinating- these reviews. <paragraph> OK - the code doesn't work under VS6 SP3 because the TagContents string (which is what gets substituted in the template for sending to the browser) gets truncated. A workaround is: 1. put <WC@fix></WC@fix> at the end of your html template file. 2. In ProcessTag event code put: Case "WC@fix" 'then on next line: TagContents = Space$(32768)This fools faulty SP3 dll into allocating a large enough buffer.
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Summary: It got me where I wanted to go!
Review: This book does it dirty but quick. Ignore the nitpicking naysayers - they'll still be locked in pointless debate long after you're up an away!
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Summary: Webclasses from Scratch- proceed with caution
Review: This book will get you up and running - that's for sure. It does get hard to follow after chp6, expecially for the novice. It's worth the money if you need to know Webclasses. Liberty does a good job of helping you with bugs on his website. However, if you are new to VB , PLEASE look elsewhere for info on database connectivity such as Distributed Apps for VB6 (Microsoft Press). The EmployeeNet is a great example application, but the using ADO to go through an ODBC DSN is hardly cutting edge....
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Summary: Overrates WebClasses.
Review: What about the Netscape browser-resizing problem when Response.Expires = 0 ?
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Summary: From Scratch - a teaching manual
Review: When I started studying WebClasses (May 2001) I looked at a lot of different places, the web, training sites, magazines, and books. In my research, I read just about everyone of the reviews on this book and also on Wrox Press VB6 Web Programming. I bought both. I don't need to repeat the drawbacks of this book that the other reviews already have mentioned. However, I do wish to emphasize one item that some one else brought out. This book is a mainly a teaching book. Not in the since of giving exact instructions (1. Do this. 2. Do that) as you would find in a high school/jr college class room (I've taught in both); however, it is useful if you need to teach yourself this technology and you don't have vast experience in the area. I did experience problems because of some of the drawbacks misprints and such, but if I had looked at the author's web site, I would have found fixes for the ones I found and saved myself time and frustrastion. Even with the drawbacks, my overall experience was positive. I now feel I understand what WebClasses are and how to use them. I'm no expert, of course. That only comes with practice. If you are looking for a book to teach the information needed for WebClasses, this one is a good one. If you are looking for a more comprehensive approach that teaches you about all areas of VB on the web, look at Wrox Press's VB6 Web Programming.
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Summary: From Scratch - a teaching manual
Review: When I started studying WebClasses (May 2001) I looked at a lot of different places, the web, training sites, magazines, and books. In my research, I read just about everyone of the reviews on this book and also on Wrox Press VB6 Web Programming. I bought both. I don't need to repeat the drawbacks of this book that the other reviews already have mentioned. However, I do wish to emphasize one item that some one else brought out. This book is a mainly a teaching book. Not in the since of giving exact instructions (1. Do this. 2. Do that) as you would find in a high school/jr college class room (I've taught in both); however, it is useful if you need to teach yourself this technology and you don't have vast experience in the area. I did experience problems because of some of the drawbacks misprints and such, but if I had looked at the author's web site, I would have found fixes for the ones I found and saved myself time and frustrastion. Even with the drawbacks, my overall experience was positive. I now feel I understand what WebClasses are and how to use them. I'm no expert, of course. That only comes with practice. If you are looking for a book to teach the information needed for WebClasses, this one is a good one. If you are looking for a more comprehensive approach that teaches you about all areas of VB on the web, look at Wrox Press's VB6 Web Programming.
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