Professional Visual Interdev 6 Programming [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Ian Blackburn (Author), Blackburn (Author), Rama Ramachandran (Author), Brian Matsik (Author)

Book Description

Series: Professional | Publication Date: September 1999

Profesisonal Visual Interdev 6 Programming begins by introducing Visual InterDev as a development environment aimed at the professional web developer. It shows how existing knowledge of HTML, ASP and scripting can be combined with Visual InterDev features to enable developers to create complex applications, integrate databases and maintain a consistent structure and appearance for a site. Professional Visual Interdev 6 also describes how Visual InterDev can be used to support teams working on large projects and contains extensive coverage of how to use the script debugging features. The book then moves out to cover important aspects of how to effectively use Visual InterDev in rapid web application development by describing how to create design-time controls (ActiveX controls used at design time to build script that is executed at run time), COM components and Windows Script components.

A demonstration of how Visual InterDev can be used within an n-tier development environment is achieved by presenting two case studies based on commercial situations. Finally the book introduces the exciting new technology areas of XML and XSL, something that all serious web developers will soon find themselves needing to know.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

If you'd said a couple of years ago that someone would develop a WYSIWYG design environment for the Web, people would have thought you were crazy. But lo and behold, Microsoft's Visual InterDev arrives on the scene with its Windows-style interface and advanced scripting features, and stuns HTML coders the world over.

Success, of course, comes at a price. This is by no means an easy language to master, and that's where Professional Visual InterDev 6 Programming comes in. It starts with the easy stuff, opening with a comprehensive tour of the interface before exploring areas such as debugging and integrating databases with Web sites. Complex functions for the real power users such as Design Time Controls are explained well with an assortment of nicely chosen and comprehensive examples.

It's particularly worthwhile to look at chapter 12's case study of how to build and operate a Web search engine using COM components. The guidelines given can be easily scaled up to provide multiple-field searching of thousands of records with very little slowdown--perfect for sites with large volumes of data and Web traffic.

Professional Visual InterDev 6 Programming is a welcome addition and should prove invaluable to wannabe--though not beginner--developers. --Steve Russell, amazon.com.uk

From the Publisher

Visual Interdev is a complete Internet programming environment for sites running on Windows NT. You can build ASP web sites using drag and drop for standard items such as forms and navigation bars, integrate databases into web applications using ADO and the Visual InterDev Design Time Controls, test and debug web applications both locally and remotely and use the Rapid Application Development and team working features to effective organise your development process. Visual interdev is set to do web programming what Visual Basic did for Windows programming - bring powerful application development to a much wider community.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 700 pages
• Publisher: Peer Information Inc.; 1st edition (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861002645
• ISBN-13: 978-1861002648
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,502,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good coverage of Visual InterDev and related technologies, October 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Professional Visual Interdev 6 Programming (Paperback)

I thought this was a good coverage of the key areas involved with creating ASP based web applications. The coverage goes well beyond Visual InterDev basics and gets into XML, Script Components and database fundamentals from a Visual InterDev perspective. The topics all seem to assume no prior knowledge, cover the basics quickly, and more into useful code and examples. Coverage of Design Time Controls (DTC's) was very good, and is one of the core features of VI. I think its a useful book and would recommend it.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Explains tools inside and out, November 3, 1999

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"ewp2000" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional Visual Interdev 6 Programming (Paperback)

A terrific resource for anyone who has already done some web development and really wants to get down and dirty with Visual InterDev. Great job explaining the new "visual" way to deal with data objects -- recordsets and DTCs -- for those of us who've done it by hand for years. I especially appreciate the explanations not just of *what* you can do, but *why* you would want to do it, and how it's different from the way you *used* to do it. Good blend of top-level overview of tools and strategy plus an under-the-hood look at the details of things like SOM recordset events.

34 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Up To Wrox Standards, January 11, 2000

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Mark Wienstein - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional Visual Interdev 6 Programming (Paperback)

I feel betrayed by the fact that the author has resorted to asking his brit colleagues to write favorable reviews for such a medicore book.

Someone at Wrox should investigate this.

But I guess it's a cheap way to boost sales.

I feel strongly about warning you not to waste money on this text. I have spoken with many teaching professionals and all Agree this book is not up to WROX standards in anyway. It is written poorly and will only confuse you about a superb product.

Ian is banking on the red Wrox label to cover up a very poor product. Wrox should either give him the opportunity to completely re-thing and re-write the book or hand it over to a pro like John Kaufman "ASP DATABASES".

Anyway, please, please, review a few pages of this book before buying and then draw your own conclusion.