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I first thought that Ian Blackburn's Professional Visual Interdev 6
book from Wrox Press might merely be a book about Visual Interdev. I
was very wrong. Mr. Blackburn also manages to bestow upon the reader
a wealth of information about current web development technologies on
the WinNT/IIS platform far beyond what the book's title suggests.
Chapters 1 through 8 provide the meat of the Visual InterDev
information, which covers the Integrated Development Environment,
scripting in InterDev, database integration, debugging and the other
InterDev tools. Being a Wrox Professional level book, the information
is dense and you won't find a lot of hand holding through the
examples. Despite the density, the author does a very good job of
providing context and explanation for InterDev's more arcane-seeming
features.
As mentioned, this book covers many topics that are closely related to
Interdev but that also stand as technologies on their own. These
include Window's Scripting Component prototyping, developing Visual
Basic COM Components, a chapter introducing XML, two 50-page case
studies and 14 (!) Appendices that provide a reference of many Visual
InterDev related technologies.
I was very impressed by both the depth and quality of information
provided beyond the InterDev features and in the reference section
(almost 200 pages of pure reference). The JScript and VBScript
appendices (for example) provide excellent, concise references (even
including error codes and reserved words) to these popular scripting
languages. Along with the ASP intrinsic objects, ADO objects, XML and
many other reference appendices this section of the book becomes
invaluable.
I would recommend this book not only to those wishing to learn Visual
InterDev, but also to web-savvy HTML and JavaScript writers wanting to
break into the world of Windows web development.
Available to buy from: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.de
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