Customer Rating: 
Summary: Dazed and confused
Comment: There's very little to recommend about this book. Most chapters are filled with superfluous verbiage and far fewer hands on exercises than I expected. Some of the chapters are redundant, as if the author forgot that he already covered this ground in an earlier chapter. There is no sensible progression to the book. Concepts and techniques seem to come out of left field with no explanation of the fundamentals of what's going on. You get some exposure to the VI interface and some familiarity with the construction of a site and programming elements, but a poor explanation of underlying concepts. I found bugs in some of the code samples, and few of the more advanced examples worked. Unfortunately, the chapter on debugging comes toward the end of the book. Don't bother with this one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Too many errors
Comment: Some sample codes don't match what the authors have written in the book. A lot of erros in the codes. For example, in Day 13, the Authors even wrote a VBScript code like 'Dim I as integer' which is supported in VB only, not in VBScript. I doubt if the authors really tested some of the codes.This book does help me to learn VI6 but I don't feel it's a good book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: great book to start with
Comment: If you want to get familiar with rapid web application development using microsoft visual interdev 6.0 - this is the book for you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Hands-on book for VI beginners!
Comment: For VI beginners, this book is great. I bought this book as a developer who wants to get up to speed on web applications, and the book lived up to its title. Step by step examples are very easy to follow and sufficient explanation is given about what is being accomplished. I have to agree with others about some examples not working at all, but with some searching on MSDN and minor tweaking the examples worked. It actually helped me fully understand the concepts. From the third week of the book, only the last chapter was useful for me (hands-on DHTML). But I actually delivered my simple database-driven web project (4 pages writing to 4 transaction tables and reading 3 lookup tables) by reading only this book! Keep in mind that I was already conversant with OLEDB and ADO.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Worth Time or Money
Comment: I've been using this book for three weeks, and find it a daily frustration. Code examples are generally absent. Key points for beginners are overlooked. And it's not like I'm a novice. I'm a self-taught MCSE, a Microsoft Certified Trainer with more than 20 years of teaching experience, and have been able to teach myself Visual Basic and other languages, but am tearing my hair out trying to learn Visual Interdev 6 using this book. A CD with examples of all code in the book would have been a great help. Here's a small example. Page 170 calls for you to add ActiveX combo boxes, text boxes, and command buttons to a simple sample app. But nowhere in my enterprise edition of VID 6 are they to be found! There are headaches like this at many key points and it's making my blood boil.
