Rating:  - From Scratch - a teaching manual
When I started studying WebClasses (May 2001) I looked at a lot of different places, the web, training sites, magazines, and books. In my research, I read just about everyone of the reviews on this book and also on Wrox Press VB6 Web Programming. I bought both.
I don't need to repeat the drawbacks of this book that the other reviews already have mentioned. However, I do wish to emphasize one item that some one else brought out. This book is a mainly a teaching book. Not in the since of giving exact instructions (1. Do this. 2. Do that) as you would find in a high school/jr college class room (I've taught in both); however, it is useful if you need to teach yourself this technology and you don't have vast experience in the area.
I did experience problems because of some of the drawbacks misprints and such, but if I had looked at the author's web site, I would have found fixes for the ones I found and saved myself time and frustrastion.
Even with the drawbacks, my overall experience was positive. I now feel I understand what WebClasses are and how to use them. I'm no expert, of course. That only comes with practice.
If you are looking for a book to teach the information needed for WebClasses, this one is a good one. If you are looking for a more comprehensive approach that teaches you about all areas of VB on the web, look at Wrox Press's VB6 Web Programming.
Rating: - If you are new to webclasses this book is a good start.
I Found this book very easy to follow as Jesse explains webclasses by one big example. I miss some explaining about "extra special features", but this book is good if you want a quick start. Also look at the book "Visual Basic Developer's Guide to Asp and Iis" thoug.
Rating:  - Overrates WebClasses.
What about the Netscape browser-resizing problem when Response.Expires = 0 ?
Rating:  - WATCH OUT FOR VS6SP3 AND THIS CODE!
I like this book. It is interesting the polar opinions on it: a few hate it. ISTM that they don't understand that the book is a work of clear pedagogy. These people seem threatened by something that is well-written, almost as if it punctures their cloud of confusion..Fascinating- these reviews. OK - the code doesn't work under VS6 SP3 because the TagContents string (which is what gets substituted in the template for sending to the browser) gets truncated. A workaround is: 1. put at the end of your html template file. 2. In ProcessTag event code put: Case "WC@fix" 'then on next line: TagContents = Space$(32768)
This fools faulty SP3 dll into allocating a large enough buffer.
Rating:  - Webclasses from Scratch- proceed with caution
This book will get you up and running - that's for sure. It does get hard to follow after chp6, expecially for the novice. It's worth the money if you need to know Webclasses. Liberty does a good job of helping you with bugs on his website. However, if you are new to VB , PLEASE look elsewhere for info on database connectivity such as Distributed Apps for VB6 (Microsoft Press). The EmployeeNet is a great example application, but the using ADO to go through an ODBC DSN is hardly cutting edge....
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