The book is pretty much okay except that it lacks an index. This makes using it as a reference sometimes difficult. If you know exactly what things are called you can look them up in the alphabetical listing. Otherwise, you are kind of screwed.

I thought the above critic was being a bit too harsh on an author... until I read it myself. Although in the "Who needs this Book?" section it mentions that "...this book can assist anyone from the beginner to the accomplished professional programmer.", I have to disagree and say that a new beginner may be confused by many of the inaccurate and dated statements. For example, I love the one that says (paraphrasing) you shouldn't use the !DOCTYPE statement because only HTML 3.2 browsers can read it anyway. Why would you ever commit such a line to print?? In many cases, this book was outdated before it went to press. It really became a problem after reading completely inaccurate statements, then not knowing weather following statements were accurate or not.

On the plus side, I liked the way it was indexed. It offered a good reference resource to those that couldn't quite remember the exact syntax, but already knew what the functions did. I noticed that the "Comprehensive Guide to VBScript" might have been comprehensive THEN, but it's missing a lot TODAY.

I could have probably got the same info online somewhere though, but I always like to have a hard copy handy. This one, however, made me feel like even I could be an author of a VBscript book. And that's not saying much.

True some of the wording in the book is a little off, but the Syntax and the depth of explaination regaurding the tags is invalueable. I have yet to find another reference book that explains the syntaxes and how to use them more complete than in this book. I use it as a reference to HTML 3.2 and ActiveX controls constantly

This book was entirely too exspensive for the content. There was a short dissappointing biography, lists of rather meaningless things, and only a few photos. The author should be ashamed for ignoring the image of Jayne Mansfield and her loving, intelligent personality...the very things that made her famous and keeps her alive in our hearts and minds. Jayne deserves more than a high priced assemblage of paper that offers little to the reader.

This book is quite disappointing... only some meager pages of biography, a handful of rather bad pictures...the rest are boring lists of records, awards etc. I expected much more of this book! I was looking for a load of info along with beautiful pictures.

The book is pretty decent in how it is written and the amount of topics but there are some areas that I found to be wrong compared to what is accepted as standards from Microsoft & Cisco and other networking bodies.

The self-tests and the exams that is given from the instructor manual is very poorly written and many of the questions are so vague on what they are looking for that you have a very slim chance of guessing the correct answer and some of the answers that is in the instructor's manual for the self-test and exams are just plain wrong so if the instructor is not very knowledgeable in the subject (like mine was) the student suffers with a poor grade.

Some of the topics covered in the book dealing with Operating Systems is pretty out of date. Some of the major changes between windows NT and 2000 are explained but in such a way that the reader comes out not knowing what is NT and what is 2000.

If you want to learn networking concepts I suggest you look to another book that is more current with network technologies because this one falls flat.

Strong use of business cases, but the text is not fullyseperated from the accompaying telecourse video tapes.

This is a pretty much run-of-the-mill American Regency with no distinguishing features. The premise is a little odd: Letty loves Lord Denham, so when he proposes, naturally she turns him down. There are a great many sillinesses, such as the adult and independent Denham letting his mother tell him what to do, Letty eloping with her sister's beau and Denham suddenly realising - without any indication of what brought him to that realisation - that he was in love with Letty.

What made the book even more disappointing is that the synopsis, as presented on this site and on the book's cover, is entirely misleading. The statement by Letty that 'I would rather be your mistress' does not form part of the book's plot at all; she only says it on the last page, by which time it is evident that the 'will-they-won't-they' is resolved.

Additionally, it is irritating to notice throughout the book examples of period inaccuracies; Mansfield is usually better than many American Regency! ! authors at avoiding these. Most obvious is the way in which the characters address each other; in the late 1700s it would have been completely unheard of for men and women not married to each other to address each other by their Christian names - and often unheard of even after marriage! When aristocrats wished to indicate a close friendship, they called each other by their titles or family names - so Lord Denham would have been Denham or Agneau (he is the Earl of Agneau) to his friends. But rarely would an unmarried woman friend have enjoyed such intimacy; it would have ruined her reputation. So Letty would never have called Denham 'Roger' as she did through much of the book.

hi
well I have tons of "for dummies" books(from spiritual to graphics and programming and the like) and this is the first that isn't good.

problems:
just some i'll like to mention.
-the author writes code for you to copy and doesnt include the "_" between the lines (other manuals/tutorials/books at least tell u to put "_" , since they dont have space to write the full code in one line), so if you go by his code format you will keep getting errors.
-on one hand the author seems to write nothing about certain vb.net code and on the other hand he writes tons about the difference between vb6 and vb.net.
he devotes tons of the book on stuff that is new to vb.net compared to vb6, while not actaully describing vb.net stuff in the first place.

in conclusion:
if your coming from vb6, this is a great guide/reference for u. if your not, using the help(references/tutorials/info that u can get on controls/commands) that actaully comes with vb2003.net is far more effective.

Should have never been published.

This book was a complete waste of time and at the end of it I didn't feel like I knew even a small fraction of what interdev was about. All the book did was waste my time.

Working through the first few chapters was useful to get into Visual InterDev from a beginner's perspective. I skipped around once I got to the long section on FrontPage. The coverage of Design-Time controls is disappointing and lacks the in-depth detail that was present in the early chapters of this book. I used it with Visual InterDev from the Ground Up and the two compliment each other fairly well.

Doris Duke enjoyed being a recluse and keeping out of the spotlight. Reading this book by Ms. Mansfield, it appears Duke did a good job at maintaining her privacy. Most of the information appears to be drawn from old newspaper articles, magazines, and other public documents. There is very little first hand information except for the occassional quip by Zsa-Zsa Gabor (!) -- a rival for one of Doris' many paramours. As mentioned in a previous reader's review, this book goes off on many tangents regarding folks other than Duke -- as if the author was required to produce a specified number of pages. I found myself skipping over many pages at a time. Perhaps biographies are supposed to reveal deep, dark secrets, but clinical descriptions of Doris' lovers' genitalia seem a bit excessive. Skip this book and watch the made-for-tv movie with Miss Bacall.

It was a poorly written, disorganized book. Not worth the paper it was written on or the money spent on it.

Doris Duke was an ugly person with a boring life.

The title of this book "Visual Studio 6 For Dummies" is more than somewhat misleading. It is not a beginner's book, or more precisely, not written in a way that would be instructive for beginners. A lot of the book details explanations of what Visual Studio is all about, yet gives very little in the way of actual coding coupled with examples and exercises.

Also, the book gives focus to Microsoft's Frontpage and InterDev applications, which is fine in itself, except that neither app is part of the Visual Studio suite.

The book is not for beginners. I tried to go thru the very first exercise and hit a "snag". The author has no E Mail address to ask questions. This book is not worth the price!

This book is not for beginners...something the author actually says in the book. I expected to get a general introduction to the various programs found in the studio and how these programs relate to each other. Instead, I found undue concentration on InterDev and Front Page (which no longer is part of the Studio) in the context of the Internet. If this is what you want then buy the book, otherwise look for something else.

Do not buy this book if you are looking for mountain bike trails and descriptions of such. This guy likes to tell you every minute detail of the fire roads and dirt roads that he took (including telling you where to stop for a rest, and weather or not to take a right here or a left there, as if you were taking the book with you on the trail!) and tells little to nothing of the single track that these areas may or may not offer. Anyway, the way he describes these back roads and the views from them, you have not need to explore them.

Gnôthi seauton.

I thumbed through this book at a bike shop in Geneva and shared my story with the owner there. Briefly stated, let me assure readers that bikers will be stopped and fined on the Finger Lakes trails. Most or all of them are now clearly marked to prohibit bikes. (This wasn't the case asa recently as three years ago.) Despite the postings and at the invitation of one of the trail workers, I decided to sample about a 1/2 mile stretch that I had not hiked before at the north end of the Interlokken Trail. Sure enough, there was a ranger at the end of the jaunt who would hear nothing of my protests (an informal okay from one of the workers) and circumstances (I walked my bike more than half way). After an appeal and fifty fine dollars, I stay clear of the Interlokken Trail, open to horses but not to bikes which are deemed to destroy the paths. The head rangerette told me that some of the trails closer to Ithaca may eventually be open to bikes, but there is a committee looking into it. However, at present the prescribed path is a rapidly travelled road with narrow and sometimes no shoulders (Route 89).

Anyone out there know of legal off-road places to bike near Auburn, Skaneateles, or environs??

Throughout this book, the author suggests riding on the finger Lakes Trail. This is illegal. This book, with such inaccuate information, has put bask the job of bike advocacy back a few steps in NY. Do not buy this book. It is full of inaccurate information, and hurts the cause of getting more trails open to bikes.