- Paperback: 1000 pages
- Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill; Pap/Cdr edition (Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0072122943
- ISBN-13: 978-0072122947
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.6 x 5.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,910,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Active Server Pages are generated on the fly in response to requests from users. ASP itself is strongly associated with Microsoft IIS but, as author Greg Buczek points out early on, such dynamically generated pages can be produced by many server side technologies. ASP Developer's Guide concentrates entirely on Microsoft ASP technologies using IIS, VBScript and ADO extensively. This makes sense as these technologies are designed to work together.
Unusually, this book isn't project based, although the last 120 pages or so do describe a product catalogue, shopping cart and customer support database. Mostly, it's concerned with explaining the intricacies of IIS as used for ASP. This is sorely needed material. Using IIS to create and manage dynamic pages is non-trivial. After the introductory material Greg Buczek uses each chapter to introduce, explain and demonstrate each aspect of ASP. Each area is liberally sprinkled with working VBScript code snippets, including the odd gotcha and neat examples of good practice. For example, using the Option Explicit to override VBScripts default action of enabling ad hoc variable creation and usage. The section on cookies is particularly valuable and should be required reading for Web authors. Greg Buczek is a big fan of cookies and gives many examples of ways in which they can do good work, but he also warns against relying on them completely as so many Web users routinely block or delete them.
ASP Developers Guide is lucid, organised and written with the enthusiasm you'd expect from an MCSD. Some will wonder why, for a technology which is supposed to make life simpler, ASP seems so much more complex than Perl and CGI. Still, if you're planning to work with ASP, though, you won't find a better text.--Steve Patient
Product Description
Using Active Server Pages (ASP) is a fairly difficult programming task. This text provides a solid developer's guide to ASP for use in the professional environment. It begins with the basics, and moves on to scripting and debugging, and the CD-ROM includes sample ASP applications.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
At 2 years old this is a "veteran". MS Content Management Server, MS Commerce Server and SQL2000 have made large parts of this book redundant. I was also surprized at the total committment to proprietry Microsoft technology - you can program ASP in JavaScript as well you know !
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Whilst I had some knowledge of VB and VBA, this book was very comprehensive and easy to follow. It got me up and running in no time at all. I would suggest looking further into ASP before assuming that having read this book you know all there is to know about ASP, but it certainly provides you with an excellent foundation in a very well written manner.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was completely new to ASP when I read this book. I found the arguements easy to follow and the structure very clear. I was able to read the book without being by a computer and when I actually got down to the task of writing an online database I found that I had been very well prepared. Most of the important concepts are covered well. I recommend this book without reservation.
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