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Professional Visual Interdev 6 Programming

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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.

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.

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.

Ian covers most aspects of InterDev, along with COM, XML, and a few other related issues. It's a helpful read if you're new to InterDev, but if you've been using it awhile you won't come away with much information you'll be using in your work.

Luckily, I read 'Visual Interdev in 24 Hours / Tom Archer/Sams' before I read Ian's book. The two books are as different as night and day.

This jolly Brit has serious difficulties explaining concepts in a linear or 'Top Down' style. Instead you are always introduced to concepts at a very obscure detail level. You will never understand Visual Interdev nor will you get excited about this incredible product by reading this rough draft.

Don't take my word for it. Read Ian's Acknowledgement/forward on the inside cover - it makes no sense. Unfortunately the entire book is written in this non-elegant and non-useful style.

I am a Wrox fan at heart, but I returned this. The search to find something as good as the 'SAMS' book continues.

I'm a big Wrox fan, owning at least $300 worth of their stuff. I was excited to see this title become available, but after a few hours with the text realized that this one is pretty bad. There's absolutely no context, order, background, or explanation to the topics. They're kind of just thrown out to you. (By the way, I'm an MCSD, so I'm not a programming neophyte). Most Wrox books assume you have a good technical background, lay a good foundation with clear explanations, and then become progressively deeper. This one just jumps right in.

I was personally looking for volume that would give me a high to mid-level view of VID6. I believe the best one out there right now is the SAMS 24-hour book. Very approachable. If you need to get deeper, use BOL or Unleashed.

On the positive side, the Wrox books for SQL7, ASP3, and ATL3 are excellent!

This book covered most of the material that I was hoping for, but most of the topics were explained at a high level, instead of really getting down to the nitty gritty. I was especially disappointed with it's coverage of Visual SourceSafe. But, this book is still better than most of the others I have browsed through for VI6.

This book is a disappointment. I am a reasonably proficient ASP programmer that so far have used TextPad, and have written forms, DB-connection strings etc by hand. I enjoyed the "ASP Pro 2.0", "Beginning ASP databases" and "Techniques for webmasters" and thought that all books from Wrox were good. So I bought this book to learn the benefits of InterDev (I considered the "beginners" InterDev book, but it looked too easy), since no manual comes with the InterDev software.

The book is supposed to be for "the professional web developer that wants to learn about the benefits of InterDev", but I am not sure. The level of difficulty varies a lot - the book contains a crash course in the InterDev IDE that left me looking like a big question mark, and chapters that have walkthroughs (with screen shots) of how you make a DSN connection on NT. The books biggest problem is that the chapters do not seem connected - a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Perhaps you are lucky to find a chapter or two you'll like (and I did find a couple), but overall the book is poor.

A great book for experienced developers who need to know how to build effective and robust Web applications. Excellent coverage of the VI IDE, DTCs, debugging and COM component creation and deployment. As you'd expect from the Wrox Professional series it doesn't waste time trying to teach you basic programming and Web fundamentals. Highly recommended.

Like the other reviews, the book skips around too much. Hard to follow. Even some of the example source code would not compile.