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Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Interdev in 21 Days (Teach Yourself Series)

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This book was so pathetic - many of the examples simply don't work. I wasted hours trying to figure out why. The MacMillan web site has some updates - and THEY ARE WRONG, TOO.

This book is awful. Don't buy it. I got it for free and decided it wasn't worth my time to continue reading it. It wastes too much time on cutesy introductory material. I simply want to know how to use the VID tool. I don't want an all encompassing, yet thoroughly vague explanation on every other web topic.

The book gives some good examples of code but nothing you can't find on the Net. The thing that made me the most frustrated and still does is when he would show step-by-step how to access a "Access Database" with DTC's but then would end there.... You would go and test it out i.e. click the button to send the form info to the database and nothing would work - in the book it just shows you how to access the ODBC Database but NEVER FOLLOWS THROUGH on how to tell you any other little code lines you may have to manually add yourself or something - So I got as far as connecting the Database of Access97 ooh boy I could do that before I wasted my money..

I've seen more effort in this book trying to cover the history of the Internet than Interdev itself. Having read the (free) documentation, I found this book simply useless

this book is a waste of time, i am an experienced programmer and have tought myself many programs (like I was trying to do with interdev) and this book goes through so much wishy washy feel good because the internet is such a wonderful thing bull that the main points and (often incorrect) code examples get lost

I found the book difficult to follow as a beginner to Visual InterDev. As an experience programmer/analyst, I am no stranger to software. I have taught myself several languages and software packages. This book just did not cut it as a teach yourself guide to Visual InterDev. The exercises/workshops often began with the assumption that you knew certain topics like Active Server Pages and ActiveX. Others started at the beginning but simply left you nowhere. Far too often it made reference to future chapters or topics.

Chapters weren't sequenced properly in my opinion. There were database connectivity topics all over the book. And I found it particularly annoying that most database exercises were impossible to complete without MS SQL. MS Access is much more readily available and should have been the model.

The graphics were plentiful and the author's writing style seemed to flow well, but the examples just did not have the same flow. It may be useful as a reference, but I did not learn enough to make that call. I still looking for the ultimate Visual InterDev book as well as the ultimate Web development environment as a whole.

Was working through the book fine until chapter 8. The book doesn't tell you enough about what your going to need before using the software, all the examples are for MS SQL server. Well I don't have SQL server, thefore I cannot go past chapter 8. I think the book should of used access databaseing examples. Access is an easier program to get ahold of. Unless you have all the tools, NT web server, SQL server, Visual Interdev(duh) and other little treats, don't waste the money.

I was thoroughly dissappointed in this book. I have gotten other 'Learn.. in 21 Days' and learned a lot. This was not the case this time. The CD-ROM didn't have half the samples and some other files on it, that the book said it did. This book is more of a beginners manual for HTML, and not so much for Visual InterDev. FIND ANOTHER BOOK!

It's possible to learn InterDev by reading this book, but there are better choices. The tiny examples usually refer ahead to topics that haven't been covered yet, which is annoying. Depth of coverage is inconsistent, often inadequate. I found at least one serious technical error. But there's probably enough good material to at least get you started, and it will probably take you five or six days to go through it, not 21.

This book don't worth the cost. After reading all the inside material, I didn't able to implement any web application.