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Windows Web Scripting Developer's Guide

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I was interested in this book primarily for its discussion of XML and it does not disappoint. This book skips the historical retrospective and gets to the heart of the matter -- creating XML files and accessing them. I wish I had found this book sooner!

There is a lot of sample code to use and it is embedded in the text, so there is no need to flip around to look back at a table as the text describes the concept. I would have been satisfied with just the XML discussion, but there are additional topics including DHTML, Windows Scripting, and script debuggers. The examples are useful and numerous. I like the final chapter where all the topics of the book are incorporated into an application. There is also an extensive appendix including a discussion of Javascript (saving me the purchase of another book). My only complaint is the subject matter is very challenging for a beginning web programmer like myself and merely reading about it is not enough. You need to interactively go through the sample code to understand.

I has been a Web developer for almost two years. Most of the books I have are very good for everyday work. However when I want more advance technique, It was very hard to find a good book. I am so glad to get this book. The book is easy to understand. There are more powerfull stuff for a Web developer to apply in the project. I am finding from chapter to chapter all the information I needed to finnish the project I was working on. .......................... This book is the book to buy.

I was interested in this book to provide the components for building web applications. The book provides all the information in an easy to read manner so that I can create an application utilizing current web technology. The technical information provides information about Advanced IE functionality, DHTML, XML, ASP, and Web Scripting which allows me to write applications using the examples in this book. The example code was very useful which allowed me to integrate the sample code into new applications. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to integrate all these technologies in their applications.

This is a great book for those who are in web development. Very detailed and gives good scripting examples using ASP, HTML, XML, DHTML, and more. It even gives you some examples using JavaScript and VBScript. This book is well written and self explanatory. It helped me to understand, learn and write scripts that uses these components. I highly recommend this book. It will help your scripting be more efficient.

When I first got the book, given the amount of material that it promised to cover - I was a little wary of a "survey course" type book that answered no questions and gave very little but high-level information. However, I was very pleasantly surprised to find this to be untrue. The book covers 3 very broad topics (DHTML Behaviors, XML, and WSC) in enough detail to be usable for the beginning all the way up to high-intermediate level developer unfamiliar with this territory. Best yet, the examples actually work (which is unusual lately)! I needed to implement both DHTML and XML into a current Java-based project, and the book helped get me off of the ground floor quite neatly. Also, the author's rather breezy and enjoyable style made the book rather fun to read - despite the potentially weighty subject material covered.

About half of this book is very Microsoft-specific (HTML applications, behaviors, etc.) However, the sections on XSL and interacting with the XML DOM are outstanding and contain much better explanations and examples than I've seen in any "pure" XSL book! I consider myself an XSL expert, but I still learned a great deal from this book. It's enabled me to write simpler, more concise and more efficient transformations. You can skip the Microsoft-specific stuff if you want and this book is still a great value.

This book is great! The chapters are well laid out and are easy to understand. It helped me learn a great deal about incorporating DHTML, XML and Web Scripting into my web applications. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to further expand their knowledge about web applications. The Web is the future and this book will lead you there!

This is a great book for those who are in web development. Very detailed and gives good scripting examples using ASP, HTML, XML, DHTML, and more. It even gives you some examples using JavaScript and VBScript. This book is well written and self explanatory. It helped me to understand, learn and write scripts that uses these components. I highly recommend this book. It will help your scripting be more efficient.