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Title: Beginning Web Development With Visual Interdev 6.0 (Beginning) by Andrew Mumford, Mike Cai, John Duckett, Paul Wilton ISBN: 1-86100-294-7 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (15 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Web Development with Visual Interdev 6
Comment: It is a good book specially for a beginner like myself. What makes it a good book, is it is slow paced and explains well throughout. The only thing I didn't like about it, was in chapter 5 when you get to Database stuff it showed you how to do it using SQL Server 7 which is a very expensive piece of software in which not very many home use users have. It is more for a business. Most people like myself would like to hook a Database up on a website using Microsoft Access.

But overall, it is a good book. Coming into it not knowing anything about Interdev I would suggest buying it, even if you do know alittle about it still buy it.

Rating: 4
Summary: Found it very useful
Comment: This book treads the borderline between a beginning and intermediate text - and succeeds. It starts somewhere close to the beginning by introducing the basics of web development using the Visual Interdev environment, and progresses to explain how to use COM objects to make your site more robust and responsive. The book is a good example of the Wrox Press "Microsoft Technologies" approach, and gives a thorough understanding of not just the Visual Interdev product, but also of the many technologies used in a professional web site, namely ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, databases, and COM. I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn this excellent product - it is well written and does not bog you down with unnecessary detail. It is clear, precise, and to the point. The examples are well thought out, and the book delivers all that it promises. Well done Wrox - once again!

Rating: 1
Summary: Teaching Bad Habits is a Bad Idea
Comment: This book may be fine for producing working web-pages, but it's pretty awful in these days of cross-browser applications.

Furthermore, the introduction of XHTML 1.0 renders almost all the code listings pretty worthless, unless you're familiar with the new standards and how to amend what's already there. As for bad habits, this book supplies them all in spades:

1) HTML pages with no attribute.
2) HTML header tags with no namespace defines.
3) No explanation of DTDs or why pages these days at least follow the minimum necessary guidelines.
4) Unlosed tags.
5) attributes not quoted as string literals - and the book actually *recommends* this practise

and many many more. The actual VBScript/ASP section is relatively okay, but the author needs to pay more attention to the destruction of called objects, and stop using the ScriptLibrary, as it's almost never used commercially and is generally considered unstable and unsafe to run on any IIS server from which a fair degree of uptime is required.

In short, probably the best option for anyone wishing to learn ASP is to get the O'Reilly book on XHTML, make a few pages and get the hang of that side of things first, and then move straight to Wrox's Professional Active Server Pages 3.0

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