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VBScript : Programmer's Reference
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Author: Susanne Clark, Antonio De Donatis, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Kathie Kingsley-Hughes, Brian Matsik
List Price: $29.99
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ISBN: 0764543679
Publisher: Wrox (31 December, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 28,125
Average Customer Rating: 3.53 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Decent overall.
Overall, VBScript: Programmer's Reference is pretty good and fairly useful.High points:
- Wide range of relevant topics.
- Good examples.
- Extensive appendicies. Low points:
- Already out of date.
- Worthless and frustrating index.
- Lots of undefined acronymns.
- Discontinuity of writing styles between the many authors. I have been writing embedded software for a long time, but am relatively new to VBScript and Windows. I found this book to be useful for me, but I suspect that there are probably better books out there.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Dips you in the VBscript pond & more (keyword dip)
A useful book for me, introducing me into VBScript quite well, but it will make you more of a 'Jack of all trades & master of none'. Each chapter gives you a dip into VBscript, HTAs, HTCs, ASP, and a whole bunch of other things I never knew about! Not a bad way to embroil ones-self into these technologies but not terribly in-depth. MSDN's site gave me more beefy examples I could use for my scripting needs. The reference section was OK at best. If you need a good warmup on VBscript and where it can live & do it's things, not a bad book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The Best VBScript Book
Although there are many books on scripting, there are only a handful of books about VBScript. Of those that do focus on VBScript, many pages are devoted to server-side web scripting with active server pages, which is amply covered by the many titles on ASP. This book by contrast is current, complete, and packed with chapters about all the cool things you can do with VBScript, including COM objects and how to write your own, regular expressions, HTML applications (*very* cool), ADO, how to build the Script Control into your applications, and yes, ASP. That's the first 500 pages. The remaining 280+ pages are references and appendices that add depth. I have seen no other reference in print or online from Microsoft that goes to these lengths to elucidate what can be done with VBScript.
The writing style is very approachable, and the Wrox Press model of a team of qualified people tackling different topics works very well (11 authors and 7 technical reviewers). These people really know the topics, and the book is well edited. An excellent value.
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