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Beginning Web Development With Visual Interdev 6.0
by: Andrew Mumford, Mike Cai, John Duckett, Paul Wilton

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.276
EAN: 9781861002945
ISBN: 1861002947
Label: Peer Information Inc.
Manufacturer: Peer Information Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 616
Publication Date: 1999-11
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Studio: Peer Information Inc.
Sales Rank: 455354

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
This book explains and demonstrates how to create web applications, using Microsoft's premier web development tool - Visual InterDev 6. In this book you'll learn what a web application is, look at the major technologies behind web development, including object oriented programming and how to incorporate data from databases into your pages using Active Server Pages and ActiveX Data Objects, and be taken through all of the major features of Visual InterDev 6. From installing the necessary software and a basic guide to HTML, to writing your own VBScript pages and JavaScript ActiveX components, you'll create lots of useful samples for your real-life applications and will be encouraged to practice at every step of the way.

Amazon.com Review:
Written for those with minimal programming experience, Beginning Web Development with Visual InterDev 6 puts serious Web programming within the reach of any newcomer using an effective tutorial demonstrating the tools and technologies needed to use Microsoft Visual InterDev effectively on the Windows platform.

The best thing about this book has to be its common-sense approach to essential APIs and tools needed for Web development today, centering on Visual InterDev. It contains what you need to know about HTML (and DHTML), ASPs, VBScript and JavaScript, as well as database programming with ADO.

The title excels at showing off the features of Visual InterDev (and other tools) with hands-on exercises. There are dozens of screen shots here for installing and configuring not only VI but also SQL Server, Personal Web Server (PWS), and MTS. This book also has a good sense of the choices Web designers must make between universal access (and pure HTML) versus other features (like cascading style sheets, DHTML, and client-side script) that will add functionality while restricting browser access.

As it progresses, this text turns to Microsoft's recommended strategies for scalable design, namely using MTS-enabled COM business objects built with VB. In all, it's the thorough and efficient tutorial on essential Web standards (from HTML to XML, with excellent coverage of the support for JavaScript and VBScript available in VI) that make this book a success.

It used to be that the best way to learn programming was to concentrate on a single language like C, C++, or Visual Basic. But today's programmers must learn a variety of languages and standards to begin working on the Web effectively. Beginning Web Development with Visual InterDev 6 covers a number of the key Web technologies, with enough depth to get you started but without bogging you down in overwhelming detail. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Web application and HTML/HTTP basics, managing browser incompatibilities, ASP basics, Visual InterDev 6 installation and feature overview, layouts, themes and site navigation tools with VI, database basics with SQL Server 7 and Access, Design-Time Controls (DTCs) and data binding, VBScript and JavaScript tutorial, DHTML basics, using ActiveX components, ADO databases, introduction to XML, error handling and debugging, VB COM components, MTS and transactions, VI deployment.

Customer Reviews

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- Teaching Bad Habits is a Bad Idea
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 ... Read More

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- Very Good for beginners
I am a new web developer I do not have much web development experience and I find this book a very good starting book that takes you from ground up in a fast and easy manner. Although it does not cover the more advanced issues however this is very clear form the title.

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- Web Development with Visual Interdev 6
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.

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- Excellent for Beginners in Web Development
It was my pleasure to review this book and I was amazed about the usefulness of the examples and how one example is worked out in all aspects. The book gives a complete overview of a feature rich product and takes the reader through it by one main example. I believe this book is very helpful for people that want to develop web applications beyond the use of Frontpage. Very recommendable book!

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- Not worth the content
This book is overprice. It has very limited instructions how to use VI 6.0 and not informative. To beginners please look for another one, your penny per page is worthless.

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