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Summary: This 2nd edition is not much better, if the first was bad
Review: As another said, you need to know everything about everything before reading this book. I cannot decide what this book is supposed to accomplish. What is its purpose? Is it a technical book or an MS advertisement? After a couple hundred pages, I found myself tired of hearing "You can"...this and "You can"...that, only to find that the how is usually left out. Considering that web page design is a relatively simple task (compared to, for example OS design,) this book proves that it is possible for man-kind to mess up just about anything. The one good thing I discovered from reading this book is what not to look for in an InterDev development book. At best, it's a confusing introduction. I wish I took more time to sample this book before plopping down my cash. Do yourself a favor: get all the O'Reilly books having to do with web design and piece things together; the documentation that comes with InterDev is, I dare say, more usefull than this book.
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Summary: A waste of time and money
Review: Computer books seem to break down into one of three major categories: theoretical concept overviews, exhaustive step-by-step learning guides, or pinpoint reference guides (e.g. O'Reily In-A-Nutshell). This book is a muddled mix of all three without achieving the benefits of any. It's too lightweight and disorganized to be a reference manual and too cursory to be a learning guide.I am over 100 pages into this and I am not quite sure if I have learned anything useful. It was clearly written without an objective in mind, which is evident chapter after chapter. It was comforting to see that many others share my opinion. I wish I had read these reviews before purchasing.
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Summary: Not good book for anyone
Review: I bought this book with intetnion it is going to be advanced book about programming VID 6.0 as the title says. Instead it is book badly written with no examples of any help. The part about DHTML is talking about dynamic postitioning, but there are no examples for useful things like form validating and so on. Part about ASP is also bad and not advanced at all. Authors should think once again if they are going to write something like this book. Don't buy it. Point.
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Summary: Good for starting off... I liked the database sections
Review: I was asked to develop some simple web pages for a database project using Visual Interdev and Active Server Pages, which I had never worked with. I usually learn a new RAD tool by taking code examples from a book an adapting them to my project. After becoming flustered with the lack of helpful examples in the "Using Visual Interdev" book, I switched to "Inside..." I skipped to the chapters on the data form wizard and database development and got list and form pages up within a few days using the Data FOrm Wizard and other development tools. It did a good job of explaining the basic idea behind ASP and how Visual Interdev works. It does waste time covering the basics of things like menu navigation, but I did like the step-by-step through the code generated by the Data Form Wizard. I would recommend this book to database developers making the switch to web development who need a jump-start, but not to the seasoned developer who will find the majority of introductory chapters a waste.
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Summary: Great How To & Reference Book
Review: If you have already worked with ASP, this book is for you. It covers all in one place, things that could easily take 5-6 books to cover! If your looking for in-depth documentation & many examples, this book may let you down, however, if your looking for a quick start, here it is! This book when combined with the online MSDN library, is a fabulous How To!
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Summary: very bad quality
Review: This book is very poorly written---it doesn't teach you anything. I've read about 100 pages now and still couldn't find something real about InterDev. All the menus, toolbars, buttons in this book are for older versions of InterDev; I'm using V6.0(SP3) and can't find any of those mentioned in the book. Most of the description are just pointless. These guys don't know about InterDev---that's what I get from reading this book.
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Summary: a well-written guide to VI
Review: When I bought the book there wasn't much around at the time. Wanting to learn Visual InterDev I got this one only to discover that you needed to know InterDev before you read it. The book tells you what InterDev does and dosn't explain why, nor does it give you any real working examples. The book also repeats itself too much. You will also need to learn ASP before you read this one. However, most of it uses InterDev scripting modules, which gets a database up and running quickly- useful but not when it comes to ASP programming. I wish I got InterDev Unleashed. I wasted my money on this one.
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