You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product?
Review title: Don't buy this book unless you need only very basic info
Product review: Unless you are completely new to programming for the web and Microsofts way of doing things, don't buy this book.It covers only the very basics of writing web applications with Visual Interdev, and goes into absolutely no advanced topics. Most of the book is just screen dumps or listing of object properties and methods - nothing you couldn't find out by playing with VI itself.Apart from that, it's not up-to-date: Three chapters are spend on ODBC, with ADO only getting 10 very superficial pages.Most of the book - apart from the screen shots and the properties lists - are in the format: Right click the mouse to bring up a context menu; drag your mouse to the icon, etc. Very basic stuff newbies to Windows might need to be told, but hopefully no programmer should need this.This book told me nothing, I didn't already know (and I bought this book because I wanted to learn VI) - it's not worth the money!
