Beginning Web Development with Visual Interdev 6 - Softcover

Mumford, Andrew; Cai, Mike; Duckett, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861002947 ISBN 13: 9781861002945

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Visual Interdev 6 is the VB of web development. As all application development moves to the web, so all programmers will migrate to Visual Interdev as their tool of choice. VI is a VB-like environment that can be used to build web applications using VBScript, JavaScript, HTML and ASP. Tools are also provided with Visual Interdev that make database development easy. As with Visual Basic, you can use ActiveX controls ADO, and other server components to build complete applications. For a beginner, Visual Interdev is the logical tool of choice for beginning web programming.

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Review

Written for those with minimal programming experience, Beginning Web Development with Visual InterDev 6 puts serious web programming into reach of any newcomer with an effective tutorial demonstrating the tools and technologies needed to use Microsoft Visual InterDev effectively on the Windows platform.

The best thing about this book has to be its common-sense approach to essential API's and tools needed for web development today, centring on Visual InterDev. The author provides what you need to know about HTML (and DHTML), ASP's, VBScript and JavaScript, as well as database programming with ADO. The title excels at showing off the features of Visual InterDev (and other tools) with hands-on exercises. There are dozens of screen-shots here for installing and configuring not only VI, but SQL Server, Personal Web Server (PWS) and MTS. This book also has a good sense of the choices web designers must make between universal access (and pure HTML) versus other features (like cascading style sheets, DHTML and client-side script) that will add functionality while restricting browser access.

As it progresses, this text turns to Microsoft's recommended strategies for scalable design, namely using MTS-enabled COM business objects built with VB. In all, it's the thorough and efficient tutorial on essential web standards (from HTML to XML, with excellent coverage of the support for JavaScript and VBScript available in VI) that make this book a success.

It used to be the best way to learn programming was to concentrate on a single language like C, C++ or Visual Basic. But today's programmers must learn a variety of languages and standards in order to begin working the web effectively. Beginning Web Development with Visual InterDev 6 covers a number of the key web technologies, in enough depth to get you started, but without getting you bogged down in overwhelming detail. --Richard Dragan, Amazon.com

From the Publisher

Beginning Web Development with Visual InterDev 6 is aimed at anyone who wants to learn how to create their own web applications, be it for a company intranet or a site on the World Wide Web. No prior knowledge of any programming language or web development is needed, although a basic familiarity with the Microsoft Windows environment is assumed. The database examples in the book primarily use SQL Server, although Access is also demonstrated as an alternative. To use this book you need to have any edition of Microsoft's Visual Studio 6.

Edition details

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1861002947
• ISBN 13: 9781861002945
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 700