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This book provides complete and detailed coverage of the various ways Microsoft Visual Basic 6 can be used for Internet-related applications development. Through the step-by-step creation of real-world applications, Hands of VB 6 for Web Development enables users to accomplish virtually any Web-related task with Visual Basic. Includes a CD-ROM with ready-to-run applets and productivity tools.
I had to buy this book for a class, and as a web developer with VB experience, expecting something “intermediate to advanced”, I came away SUPER disappointed. To put it mildly, this book sucks.
Rating: 1 / 5
I expected complete info on DHTML examples and Webclasses. This was a very disappointing book
Rating: 1 / 5
Compliments to the authors. I’ve looked long for a practical book that links VB to web site development. This one fills the bill. I recommend it highly. Thanks to the authors for an accessible book that is not micky-mouse.
Rating: 5 / 5
If only those filler pages were subsitituted for a meticuolus and exahustive attempt to explain how to effectively use VB6 for Web Development. What if you’re using IIS 4 instead of Personal Web Server, how do you deal with out-of-process server instantiating? it’s vague! I had stop halfway, nothing worked! What a waste of time (and money).
Rating: 1 / 5
I was extremely disappointed at this book. There are many reasons for this. The number one reason however was when it taught you how to send email from your application and do stuff like that, it said to use a control which DOESN’T EVEN COME WITH VB! The controls cost around $100 dollars. I think thats pretty sad. And if you did buy the controls, you wouldn’t need the book because the control makes it so simple. Besides that complaint, about half the book is talking about what the projects do instead of explaining how they work. And even more, this book doesn’t go into detail about IIS applications which I hoped it would. Also, this book said “Intermediate To Advanced”, yet there is a chapter introducing the internet and a very BASIC introduction to HTML. If you ask me, that doesn’t sound like Intermediate to Advanced material! This book is a terrible, if Amazon had a rating of 0 Stars, I would have given it.
Rating: 1 / 5