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Professional Visual Basic 6 Web Programming
by Jerry Ablan, Charles Crawford, Jr. Caison, Matt Brown, Dwayne Gifford, Pierre Boutquin
List Price: $49.99
Our Price: $19.99
ISBN: B0000B0T05
Publisher: Wrox Press Inc (August, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 1,864,750
Average Customer Rating: 3.68 out of 5
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Rating: 3 out of 5
Alot covered, none very well
I have to agree with previous reviewers, this book DOES cover quite a bit. From DHTML to IIS Applications, but it has to be considered a beginner to intermediate book on Web programming in VB6. Even though the long-term viability of Web Classes is under question, the utter lack of any quality material on the ONE thing Microsoft touts as "Web" enabled in VB6 is extremely disappointing for a book so expensive. You can debug problems with your objects in VB6 with WebClasses that you can't perform with an ASP page and a compiled dll. Do they even mention this? No.For the interested, you can find most of the material discussed in this book by simply looking on MSDN or other web sites for articles on the subjects you're interested in. With multiple authors, that's all you will get out of this book, anyway.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Book was very useful to me professionally. But not perfect.
I rated this 5 stars because it has the most useful writeup on writing Server Components in VB for use with ASP - chapters 9-11. I wanted to do this and had trouble getting working samples and explanations. I feel that industrial strength ASP is very ugly and unweildy if you don't encapsulate the code into components. MSDN has lots of reference material about this but little, if any, useful "how to" stuff that i could find.This book showed me how to do exactly what i wanted to do. Other than that, it is a good introduction into a good number of web concepts, old and new. The first 3 chapters were a good overview of Microsoft web concepts and techniques. The writeup on web classes, if you like them, is good. I really liked the CGI case study including how to implement standard input/output via the win32 API. The relatively free use of various win32 API functions in VB help overcome a general fear of mixing VB and CC++ functionality. The book was a bit large but was well organized. In general it gave me a much higher opinion of Wrox books.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Very SQL serve-centric
If you are just starting to use ASP and have access to a MS SQL server, then this is a good read. However, don't even consider it if you have any previous APS experience or don't have access to a SQL server. In fact, there is no mention of MS Access in the entire book! It is pratically usesless as a reference for ASP and just sits and gathers dust.
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