Using Visual InterDev 6

By Michael Amundsen

Teaches the reader how to use Visual InterDev 6, and on provides access to answers and information on Visual InterDev basics. After a foundation, the book covers the use of the development... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789716402
• ISBN13: 9780789716408
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 873 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Write to the point with lots of examples

If you are a beginner to intermediate this book is for you. It explains every tool and menu item of the programming package with easy to follow steps and examples. It explains the problem, the line by line coding, the options available and the results. It also gives you real live examples and tips. I'm a beginner and I love this book. I went through 5 different books before this one and they were either to hard for me to understand or too far away from the subject. This is a great book.

Nice Book

This was a nice little book...Definately aimed at beginners. There are no advanced topics, but this book is definately a good introduction and helps prepare the reader to move on to advanced topics...By the way...One of the other reviewers stated that it took "many hours" to debug the DB portions of this book...Well, all I have to say about that is that nothing in this book should take many hours and if it does, then that person is in the wrong business.

Want to learn InterDev, VBScript, and ASP? This is THE book!

You simply cannot find a better introductory book than this one on Visual InterDev 6. Michael Amundsen gives an oustanding tutorial on the InterDev environment, then moves on to build a solid understanding of planning, designing, and implementing web applications.This book will quickly and easily bring the beginning web developer up to speed on Visual InterDev 6, HTML forms, Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), Active Server Pages (ASP), and delivering database content to the web... everything you need for real-world server-side web development.The author walks the reader through tons of step-by-step hands-on examples with crystal-clear explanations. And the organized format of the book makes it a great reference that I go back to again and again.When I set out to learn ASP, I wanted to learn the only integrated development environment (IDE) that was built for ASP - Microsoft's Visual InterDev. Take it from me, a professional web application developer... this is THE book to get started with.

An excellent way to get started with Visual InterDev 6

This book will provide you with a fast way to get up and going in Visual Interdev. Coverage of the basics of DTCs is excellent. VID has a lot of breadth and requires knowledge of ASP, which you will be better equipped to understand after you read this book. After reading this book I found the on-line ASP docs from Microsoft sufficient. Mr. Amundsen's book provides some very nice information on ADO. You get information on using it both at a low-level and using DTCs. Learn the low-level approach first and the DTCs will make much more sense. The author supports a mailing list and web site with some great tutorials and a FAQ area. The list and site with the author's support constitute a great resource for learning the more advanced topics.

A book by a real practitioner

Mike Amundsen has been one of (if not *the*) mainstays of the Visual InterDev newsgroups. If you want a book by someone who is continually showing that he knows what he's talking about by giving correct answers to a variety of real-life users of the product, then this is the book for you.Note that this book is (to parapharase Mr. Amundsen) meant to be a solid introduction, not a comprehensive reference.