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Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Programmer's Guide

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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.

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.

This book provides a very high level overview of the basics and does not provide the information a new user needs to know. The book is limited in its web technology explanations and only touches on functionality. Not a good choice for the new user or for the more experienced user who needs a good reference source.

I am upset.I have experience in VB,ASP,Scripting Languages and needed to master Visual Interdev,which I use in my current project to help me around with my Web Programming. What this book does for you is NOTHING.It starts a topic , explains it in 10 lines and off to the next topic...what is going on? You knew part of the stuff they told you in those 10 lines,you needed to KNOW more and also the stuff you dont know you could handle in visual interdev.But does this book do that.NO SIR.Not even the slightest attempt in made to help you out.At the best it is like one of those ill designed manuals which come with your computer/toaster/washing machine.But even they are better than this book for they atleast have something called "troubleshooting" at the end.You are left feeling frustrated,angry with your fists ready to punch the guys who thought of bringing out such a book. This is the first time I have made such a strong comment on a book in here.I am running against time and needed a good book on VID to help me thro,and this book has spoilt everything and got me in trouble with my boss.

Strangely none of the books listed at amazon have any good comments on any VID book.I usually go for Wrox publications,but even their two books have taken a beating here. Now going for VID Unleashed.Hope it helps.

If you are having trouble sleeping, get a copy of this book! It is loaded with the most potent sedatives. No, really. I bought it as part of the Visual Studio set, and after several attempts at reading it, I still could not point to one new thing that I gained from it. It's difficult to follow what the author was trying to say, as he seemed to keep jumping from one insufficiently discussed topic to another. I only hope Microsoft would publish better books like SQL Server Database Implementation kit. I have recently bought a copy of Visual Interdev 6 Unleashed, hoping to gain some insight into the wealth of VID 6.0 tool.

I've opened this book with Visual Interdev 6 questions, and I've returned it to my bookshelf unsuccessful a number of times. It's difficult to identify what the author was trying to accomplish in writing this, but it sure wasn't to convey information about MS Visual Interdev 6.0 to others. Stick with the Sam's publications, and hopefully some day the Microsoft press will come around.

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 ???

This 480 page book starts talking to people interested in internet development on page 283. Before this point it's a review of Visual Interdev that prospective 6.0 buyers won't understand, and current 6.0 owners already understand. After this point, the book gives a fairly good discussion of script writing and script application. At $20 bucks this book is probably worth having, but it won't be the core of anyone's internet development library.

I was hoping to find some in-depth matter which is not available in the on-line help but I did not find much to what I already knew. Instead of "programmer guide", more appropriate term for the title is "users guide". Particularly lacking is details of ASP and integerating data bases using queries etc. Good for general information but not of much practical value.

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.