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Summary: Very concise, you need to have some knowledge about ASP
Review: I spent almost a whole afternoon trying to find a good book on InterDev. Not much luck, but this one really caught my eyes. It covered a lot of stuff in a very thin book. But you got to have read some other books about ASP, vbscript, javascript before you pick up this book. This book is all about Visual interdev, some other books will tire you to death with ASP, ODBC, SQL and many other things which shouldn't be elaborated in a book about Visual InterDev. This is a printed version of the online help.
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Summary: Very concise, you need to have some knowledge about ASP
Review: I spent almost a whole afternoon trying to find a good book on InterDev. Not much luck, but this one really caught my eyes. It covered a lot of stuff in a very thin book. But you got to have read some other books about ASP, vbscript, javascript before you pick up this book. This book is all about Visual interdev, some other books will tire you to death with ASP, ODBC, SQL and many other things which shouldn't be elaborated in a book about Visual InterDev. This is a printed version of the online help.
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Summary: Not the only book you'll need, but definitely worth having
Review: I'm not quite as bitter about my purchase as some of these other folks. In fact, I'm not bitter at all. For $20.00, having a hard copy I can read away from my work computer where I have VID 6.0 installed is a deal. More importantly, I learned some things from this book I did not know about VID 6.0 that are useful and show some of the more exciting capabilities of the product. I agree, it could be more detailed in certain aspects. For one, the form manager example, which is one of the more interesting additions to Visual Interdev for me, seems to be written incorrectly. Also, I would have liked to have seen some parameter query examples for Access as well as SQL Server, since my development environment includes both. You will certainly want and need other VID 6.0 tutorials and references, but this is a great starter for getting up to speed on the new features and scripting model presented by the latest version of Visual Interdev.
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Summary: handy
Review: Indeed, this is not the right book for programming with Interdev 6.0. However, I always kept it on my desk as a quick guide to the Interdev IDE. In this context I find it useful.
I got most of the programming aspects from the MSDN Library.
I really learned the core programming from the AppDev training books which my employer was willing to invest in but if you don't have a big budget then there are lots of resources on the internet.
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Summary: Why in the world was this book published?
Review: It's written by Microsoft, and they ought to know, right? Well, this is mostly just the online help, which is not too "helpful" to begin with, so if you have Visual InterDev you don't need to buy this book.
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Summary: Don't waste your cash - you have this book already.
Review: This book is a paperback version - word for word - of the on-line documentation for VID6. They've just removed the active links that make the on-line stuff reasonably useful. That's why most reviewers found it too condensed - the internal links are gone. So if you own InterDev, you have this book already. If you don't, why do you want to buy a book on it? I'm new to InterDev, and could use a good book to help me out - I find the interface confusing at best. But this book is certainly not the one I need. Fortunately, the guy in the next cube knows his way around...
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Summary: Don't waste your cash - you have this book already.
Review: This book is a paperback version - word for word - of the on-line documentation for VID6. They've just removed the active links that make the on-line stuff reasonably useful. That's why most reviewers found it too condensed - the internal links are gone. So if you own InterDev, you have this book already. If you don't, why do you want to buy a book on it? I'm new to InterDev, and could use a good book to help me out - I find the interface confusing at best. But this book is certainly not the one I need. Fortunately, the guy in the next cube knows his way around...
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Summary: Go with Sam's
Review: This book provides a summary of Visual Interdev 6.0 procedures. It is a waste of money for the novice Interdev 6.0 - user because it does not provide one pratical sample application. For example I found this book annoying because it does not take the reader by the hand on how to make Database forms in Visual Interdev 6.0. Using the "Data Form Wizard" in Visual Interdev 1.0 Microsoft provided an essential tool for creating database forms in web pages. Now I am spending several days figuring out how to make database forms in Visual Interdev 6.0. Using the "Data Form Wizard" in Visual Interdev 1.0 database enabled webforms can be created in minutes. Why did Microsoft delete the "Data Form Wizard" in Visual Interdev 6.0 ???
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