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Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Interdev in 21 Days Review by pennixmj@worldnet.att.net
Examples/Exercises left you out in the cold!!!
I found the book difficult to follow as a beginner to Visual InterDev. As an experience programmer/analyst, I am no stranger to software. I have taught myself several languages and software packages. This book just did not cut it as a teach yourself guide to Visual InterDev. The exercises/workshops often began with the assumption that you knew certain topics like Active Server Pages and ActiveX. Others started at the beginning but simply left you nowhere. Far too often it made reference to future chapters or topics.
Chapters weren't sequenced properly in my opinion. There were database connectivity topics all over the book. And I found it particularly annoying that most database exercises were impossible to complete without MS SQL. MS Access is much more readily available and should have been the model.
The graphics were plentiful and the author's writing style seemed to flow well, but the examples just did not have the same flow. It may be useful as a reference, but I did not learn enough to make that call. I still looking for the ultimate Visual InterDev book as well as the ultimate Web development environment as a whole.