Using Active Server Pages: Special Edition (Using ... (Que)) (Paperback)

Book Description
This book will serve as both a tutorial and a reference. Each chapter builds on the previous chapters, thus expanding the readers knowledge. Additionally, the material is organized in a way that the reader will be able to easily reference when they later have a question. This book provides the reader with up-to-date coverage of what can be done with Active Server Pages. This includes coverage of Active Server Pages as they relate to Transaction Server, the Personalization System, the Personal Web Server (with Windows 95), ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and much more. Unlike most of the competition, this book will assume more basic knowledge of VBScript and standard web page creation. This will allow the book to go farther and deeper into technical topics surrounding Active Server Pages. Most of the competitive books center on Windows NT and IIS. This book will expand the coverage to include using Active Server Pages on Windows 95 using the Personal Web Server.

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The book¿s purpose, targeted audience and organization
The purpose of this book:
With the integration of the Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0, the Microsoft Transaction Server, and Active Server Pages, the power of distributing worthwhile applications over the Web is a reality. This book is solely dedicated to demonstrating the powerful functionality of Active Server Pages to deliver real-world applications over the Web.

Who should use this book:
With that said, this book is targeted for the application developer that have some experience developing client-server applications, but is also intended to provide a foundation for budding ASP developers. The goal of this book is to provide an effective knowledge transfer mechanism to enable developers to transition their existing application development experience into building robust, scalable, Web-based applications using Active Server Pages. At the same time, this book provides the foundation to help push beginning and junior level application developers into advanced Web based application developer roles.

How the book Is organized:
Parts I and II of the book are designed to give an architecture perspective and a primer of VBScript. This primer is intended not to teach every detail of VBScript, but is designed to show developers the needed programming functionality to rapidly produce ASP applications.

This book is organized in a manner that demonstrates what it takes to build, develop, and deliver Web-based applications. This book is separated into six parts, each part building off the proceeding to demonstrate the technical evolution of Active Server Pages. Each part of the book ends with an example chapter that demonstrates the use of the various topics covered in the preceding chapters. Even though the content of each part may be technically different, all of the examples focus on using Active Server scripts to build enterprise Web-based applications.

In a nutshell, the book utilizes the following topics to transition simple Active Server Pages into real Web-enabled applications:
Part I: Introduction to Active Server Pages
Part II: VBScript: The Foundation of Active Server Pages
Part III: Active Server Objects: The Essential Building Blocks
Part IV: Active Server Components: Extending the Server Functionality
Part V: Database Management with Active Server Pages
Part VI: Active Server Pages and the Enterprise Solution
Appendices


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25 Reviews 5 star:  (6) 4 star:  (6) 3 star:  (5) 2 star:  (2) 1 star:  (6)           Average Customer Review 3.2 out of 5 stars (25 customer reviews)		Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Most Helpful Customer Reviews   1.0 out of 5 stars A very frustrating book, 6 Mar 2000 By  "nellyhardie" - See all my reviews I am a developer working for a major IT consultancy. This book contains too much waffle and not enough concise technical explanation. Examples are sketchy and incomplete, and the most fundamental technical points are skimmed over or impenetrable. I found this book utterly frustrating to use, and it regularly fails to answer my questions. It's neither suitable for a beginner needing hand-holding, nor for a professional developer requiring a reliable reference. Try instead O'Reilly's ASP in a Nutshell, which in contrast is thorough but also concise and clear, and is also refreshingly honest about the discrepencies between Microsoft's technical claims and the way ASPs work in reality. And is also a third of the price. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   5.0 out of 5 stars A Winner!!!, 29 Aug 1999 By A Customer I am a certified MCSE. I am also currently pursuing an MSCD certificate. I do admit that some sections of the example codes in this book are not perfectly clear nor precise, however, the ideas and concepts of these example codes are pretty straight forward and self-explainatory. The book is very well organized and easy to read. It covers a vast topics in ASP, including DCOM, ADO, VB, InterDev, ODBC, MTS, ActiveX, Ms Queue, and also SQL Database -- basically, if all the previous topics mentioned above needed to be fit into 700 pages, Scott Johnson did it RIGHT, you can't ask for more. If you are working with MS SQL server 6.5 and IIS 4 server, and that you are following the exercises in the book like I had, you will be shock to realize at the end that you have built an n-tier internet and extranet front-end database application! Excellent book. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   1.0 out of 5 stars Lots of error, 4 Aug 1999 By A Customer Just don't buy it. The worst ASP book I ever read! Very hard to read and there are lots of code error in the book. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 25 customer reviews...		Ad feedback   Most Recent Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful to the novice, great deal of help Starting this book the same week as a new job where i was thrust into using interdev and ASP pages for database connections out of the 4 or 5 books i am reading this proved to be... Read more Published on 25 Jun 1999 3.0 out of 5 stars Would like to verify.. and add to my previous comment I had written a previous comment about the book Using ASP.. and in particular about the author Scott Johnson.. Read more Published on 26 May 1999 2.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money! Like most QUE books, this book is practically unreadable. I planned to use this book to practice ASP at home where I use Personal Web Server as I'm sure most of other readers do... Read more Published on 24 May 1999 1.0 out of 5 stars Wasted my money.. I like everbody else thought this would be a good choice from the "Using Series". I was wrong, the author's makes no point of naming their sample files so you can't... Read more Published on 18 Feb 1999 4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference!! "Using Active Server Pages" is hands-down the best reference on ASP on the market, IMHO. The section "Creating Your Own Active Server Components" saved my... Read more Published on 9 Jan 1999 1.0 out of 5 stars Bad Code!! I don't know why anyone would rate this book any higher than a one if they read the whole thing. Creating your own ActiveX Server Components is the single most important thing... Read more Published on 24 Nov 1998 1.0 out of 5 stars A good book if you're not creating ASP pages. I was sorely disappointed with this book. There are too many mistakes in this book, in the source code, the examples, and the diagrams. Read more Published on 20 Nov 1998 4.0 out of 5 stars This is a good book for beginner. I felt this book is easy to read. I can read it form page to page like a novel. Even I have never used and accessed to MTS, IIS and done any ASP at all. Read more Published on 16 Oct 1998 4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource For Beginners This book provided us with the ability to learn and implement an entire Active Server Page website in about 4 weeks! Read more Published on 25 Sep 1998 1.0 out of 5 stars To many errors You would think that some computer experts, most likely PHDs could write a simple programming book without soure code errors!!!! This really messed me up. Read more Published on 18 Jun 1998 Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 25 customer reviews...

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