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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Visual Interdev

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Its always frustrating to spend 25 dollars on a book that claims to teach something and doesn't follow through. That is the case with this book. Nothing here I couldn't have gotten surfing the web for free. Books that claim to be for idiots should be for people who are new to the subject, not for people stupid enough to waste their money on a book that doesn't follow through. I burned it along with some PILOT books fromt he 70's.

If you are having trouble opening the box, taking out the cd-rom and setting up the software, then you might find some use for this book. If you are in need of developing anykind of database driven sites then your best bet is to look else where.

I didn't find this book to be of much help in any category. It was mostly a general overview, with few details. If all you were doing is the basics, it could be of some help, but if you really want to build a real application, it's not very helpful

One would think that an "Idiot's" guide would be written for the newbie in the subject covered. Not this book. There are no step-by-step instructions for anything. It goes on and on at great length about the theory of web site development (in simplistic terms), and never really explains how to DO anything that Front Page or many other web page authoring tools can't do.