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IIS6 Programming Handbook
This book will provide programmers with a practical and fast-paced guide to the most important features of Microsoft's latest version of Internet Information Services (IIS6). This exciting new book covers the key areas of interest for web developers who use Windows servers who want to get started with IIS6. These include;
280 pages, Paperback
First published March 25, 2003
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January 20, 2008
Christopher Ambler et al., IIS6 Programming Handbook (Wrox, 2003)
Maybe it's just me. But when I see the words "Programming Handbook" in a title, I expect code. Lots of code. Pages of stuff on how to use code, how to write code, how to apply code to a specific application, you name it. But it's all about the code.
The IIS6 Programming Handbook is a reference manual that could have been written by Microsoft itself. In other words, it's needlessly abstruse, unhelpful, suffering from an almost complete lack of examples or explanations of the things it's trying to illuminate, and in other words, is all-around unhelpful to, I suspect, anyone but those who already know what the book's talking about. And if you do, you probably don't need this book. The first computer book in my collection about current technology that's going to Half price Books before the tech becomes obsolete. *, because I finished it (though I was reduced to skimming the last hundred pages or so).
Maybe it's just me. But when I see the words "Programming Handbook" in a title, I expect code. Lots of code. Pages of stuff on how to use code, how to write code, how to apply code to a specific application, you name it. But it's all about the code.
The IIS6 Programming Handbook is a reference manual that could have been written by Microsoft itself. In other words, it's needlessly abstruse, unhelpful, suffering from an almost complete lack of examples or explanations of the things it's trying to illuminate, and in other words, is all-around unhelpful to, I suspect, anyone but those who already know what the book's talking about. And if you do, you probably don't need this book. The first computer book in my collection about current technology that's going to Half price Books before the tech becomes obsolete. *, because I finished it (though I was reduced to skimming the last hundred pages or so).
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