Teach Yourself Visual InterDev 6 in 21 Days

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.

This is an excellent book for beginners who want to know more from the conceptual view what Interdev is all about. For a hard-core programmer, I highly recommend Interdev Unleashed(99 ed.)

This book was easy to read and comprehend. It did have some minor typos and some of the examples did not work as listed, but after some minor tweaking they worked great. Actually, it helped me to understand the technology better....

I have used Allaire Homesite before for writing ASP pages, recently forced myself to Visual Interdev.This book not only teaches you how to use VI, but also hints you a healthy application development throughout chapters.You might be flustrated with the lacking of examples, since they are not always available in everyday. Hold your breath for a few days (I know it is hard) and you will find one that would satisfy you.After all, this is a good book IF YOU ALREADY know some HTML and got some experience in application development. If you haven't met the criteria I have mentioned, you may have to do some studies before you make a conclusion hating this book.I certainly hope they either rename this book, or publish that under Wrox, or get some details in the preface so that people would not expect it incorrectly.

This book starts good and gets better. The author explains techniques and theory with a very easy-to-follow style. After loading the errata from the publishers site, I was able to get my Access based, Win98 application on track.I recommend this book to anyone that wants to get up to speed quickly with VID6.