The Comprehensive Guide to VBScript: The Encyclopedic Reference for VBScript, HTML & ActiveX (Paperback)

by Richard Mansfield (Author)

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Product Description
Covers every feature and copmmand in VBScript. Includes a description, command, syntax, variables, and uses and cautions for each entry. Explains common Internet programming concepts and acronyms.

Product Details

• Paperback: 864 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books (November 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566044707
• ISBN-13: 978-1566044707
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,054,351 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Having no Index is Really Lame, January 20, 2000

By A Customer

The book is pretty much okay except that it lacks an index. This makes using it as a reference sometimes difficult. If you know exactly what things are called you can look them up in the alphabetical listing. Otherwise, you are kind of screwed.

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2.0 out of 5 stars You too, can be an author of a book., October 15, 1998

By A Customer

I thought the above critic was being a bit too harsh on an author... until I read it myself. Although in the "Who needs this Book?" section it mentions that "...this book can assist anyone from the beginner to the accomplished professional programmer.", I have to disagree and say that a new beginner may be confused by many of the inaccurate and dated statements. For example, I love the one that says (paraphrasing) you shouldn't use the !DOCTYPE statement because only HTML 3.2 browsers can read it anyway. Why would you ever commit such a line to print?? In many cases, this book was outdated before it went to press. It really became a problem after reading completely inaccurate statements, then not knowing weather following statements were accurate or not.

On the plus side, I liked the way it was indexed. It offered a good reference resource to those that couldn't quite remember the exact syntax, but already knew what the functions did. I noticed that the "Comprehensive Guide to VBScript" might have been comprehensive THEN, but it's missing a lot TODAY.

I could have probably got the same info online somewhere though, but I always like to have a hard copy handy. This one, however, made me feel like even I could be an author of a VBscript book. And that's not saying much.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the Comprehensive Guide to VBScript , an excellent reference, April 19, 1998

By A Customer

True some of the wording in the book is a little off, but the Syntax and the depth of explaination regaurding the tags is invalueable. I have yet to find another reference book that explains the syntaxes and how to use them more complete than in this book. I use it as a reference to HTML 3.2 and ActiveX controls constantly