Hands On Visual Basic 6 for Web Development

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Summary: Recommendation
Review: Compliments to the authors. I've looked long for a practical book that links VB to web site development. This one fills the bill. I recommend it highly. Thanks to the authors for an accessible book that is not micky-mouse.

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Summary: Recommendation
Review: Compliments to the authors. I've looked long for a practical book that links VB to web site development. This one fills the bill. I recommend it highly. Thanks to the authors for an accessible book that is not micky-mouse.

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Summary: Pass on this
Review: I guess I disagree with some of the other readers. I think the title is appropriate. There are several useful internet applications on the CD and the book goes through them pretty well

The autors may take too much of a consultants point of view in describing "how to design" an application but I think it is a good way to go about development.

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Summary: Pass on this
Review: I had to buy this book for a class, and as a web developer with VB experience, expecting something "intermediate to advanced", I came away SUPER disappointed. To put it mildly, this book sucks.

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Summary: Rod Paddock, Very good author.
Review: I looked through this book at a book store first and thought it would be a good "hands-on" approach to learning how to use Active X/ASP technologies. What I found is that when I made a serious effort to go through the projects, there were a lot of gaping holes.

The book is definitely not an intermediate/advanced book, but a beginner book with a lot of detail left out. The authors should focus more on the projects, providing bullet proof documentation on making them work and forget about the project management, history and other non-value added content.

I followed each of the lessons with success until about half way through the second project. At that point, I could'nt get the most of the ActiveX server exercises to work. The VB Researcher project fell apart toward the end of the chapter, and left me wondering what it was that I was trying to accomplish.

I found nothing in the book that would help me troubleshoot my projects and get them working. I also found it very confusing mapping projects in the book to the companion CD projects. There appears to be no intuitive or logical way to do this other than open each project up and see whether it looks like the one in the book.

At best, this book will give a begginer a tour of what is possible with these technologies, but confuse anyone trying to make anything work. If anyone can recommend me a book that delivers a clear hands-on approach, please let me know.

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Summary: Step by step walkthru of VB 6.0 / Web projects
Review: This is the book I was looking for. A walk thru example is the way I like to learn. The book walks you through four major projects with database connections via the Web.

The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is that I think it went too much into discussing development methodology.