Beginning Web Development with Visual InterDev 6

This book explains and demonstrates how to create web applications, using Microsoft's premier web development tool - Visual InterDev 6. In this book you'll learn what a web application is, look at the major technologies behind web development, including object oriented programming and how to incorporate data from databases into your pages using Active Server Pages and ActiveX Data Objects, and be taken through all of the major features of Visual InterDev 6. From installing the necessary software and a basic guide to HTML, to writing your own VBScript pages and JavaScript ActiveX components, you'll create lots of useful samples for your real-life applications and will be encouraged to practice at every step of the way.

What's Great About This Book

• Shows how to create Web Applications within the Visual InterDev 6 environment
  
• Includes coverage of how to work with,and get the most out of, both ASP and ADO
  
• Chapters on the key VI topics of error handling and debugging
  

Who is the book for?

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.

Table of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Basics of Web Design
Chapter 2: Installation of Visual InterDev
Chapter 3: Visual InterDev - Quick Tour
Chapter 4: Designing and Managing Site Navigation
Chapter 5: Database Basics
Chapter 6: Client Side Scripting
Chapter 7: Writing Active Server Pages
Chapter 8: Design Time Controls
Chapter 9: XML
Chapter 10: Database Access with ADO
Chapter 11: Error Handling and Debugging
Chapter 12: Creating Code Components
Chapter 13: Designing for the Bigger Picture
Chapter 14: Case Study - Help Desk

Appendix A: Visual InterDev 6 Menu Reference
Appendix B: IE5 Object Model
Appendix C: ASP Object Model
Appendix D: HTML Reference
Appendix E: VBScript Reference
Appendix F: Jscript Reference
Appendix G: Useful Websites
Appendix H: Support & Errata