Amazon.co.uk Review
ASP in a Nutshell gives Microsoft Active Server Pages' developers a quick reference guide for looking up object usage. This guide is geared towards working ASP programmers who need to get their answers quickly, without wading through long examples.
The book is organised in three parts: an introduction to ASP, a language reference, and appendices. This second edition has been updated for IIS 5.0 and ASP 3.0--the latest flavours of Microsoft's flagship Web server and scripting engines. The ASP introduction is very brief but adequately explains the basic concepts behind ASP and server-side scripting.
The heart of the title is the language reference that covers the intrinsic ASP objects plus ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.6, Collaboration Data Objects, file access, and more. Each section is tagged with staggered page markers that usually make it unnecessary to resort to the book's index to find a topic.
While there are no full-blown code examples, the small code fragments that are included for most objects are valuable in illustrating usage. The information is accurate and to the point throughout, and that's exactly what busy programmers really need in a desktop reference. --Stephen W. Plain, Amazon.com
Topics covered:
- ASP overview
- Application of ASP objects
- ASPError
- ObjectContext
- Request
- Response
- Server
- Session
- Global.ASA
- Installable components (ActiveX Data Objects 2.6)
- Ad Rotator
- Browser Capabilities
- CDO for NT
- Content Linking
- Content Rotator
- Counters
- File Access
- Logging Utility
- MyInfo
- Page Counter
- Permission Checker
- Tools
- Converting CGI/WinCGI applications
- ASP on other platforms
- Configuring IIS
Amazon.co.uk Review
Continuing the enormous success of the O'Reilly "In a Nutshell" series of reference works, ASP in a Nutshell rolls up it's sleeves and delves deep into the inner workings of this handy technology.
Not intended as a catch-all guide, the book is nonetheless an invaluable work, taking time to spell out in succinct terms the various commands together with their associated switches and parameters.
Divided into five sections, covering subjects including a full breakdown of the object model and a list of all of the installable components (the ad rotator, content linker and more), there's something here for programmers of all abilities, including invaluable guidance on use of the global.asa, preprocessing directives and server-side includes. Topped off with a useful set of appendices which give help and advice on topics including how to CGI applications to ASP and where to get hold of cross-platform ASP-based tools this is a must have for anyone who's serious about getting the most from ASP and NT server.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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