ASP: Active Server Pages [Paperback]

Andrew M. Fedorchek (Author), David K. Rensin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764580426 | ISBN-13: 978-0764580420 | Publication Date: July 25, 1997

This is a concise guide for hard-core Internet application developers - the experts who have mastered HTML and CGI programming and want a serious, in-depth guide to the Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) development environment. The book contains the details and real-world code they should need to put the technology to work quickly, on the job. The authors demonstrate comprehensive ways of writing custom components, incorporating them into an ASP application and making use of third-party scripting languages - including Perl and REXX. A complete database oriented ASP application is also included. Accompanying the book is a CD-ROM.

Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers) (July 25, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764580426
• ISBN-13: 978-0764580420
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,607,470 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very inconclusive, assumes too much access to web server, August 9, 1998

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[e-mail] (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ASP: Active Server Pages (Paperback)

The authors assumed that all web designers have access to the web server machine, which in fact is usually not the case. I myself being the senior web designer at a fairly large company, do not have the access privileges to write to files outside the HTTP directory or CGI-BIN. The root of the web server is forbbiden to everyone except the System Administrators. Any request to change system files or upload data sources can take days to implement or even weeks. I also have my personal web site hosted by a seperate internet host provider. Which I have no access to load any of the DLL files from the book to test or use. I do have an ASP directory but almost all of the examples in the book call functions or objects from their DLL's. Therefore, I can only assume these functions work as stated in the book. I did find the general information useful as to how ASP page are implemented and the robust features ASP offers to developers.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still the best intro to ASP for programmers, October 16, 1999

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M. Kersey (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASP: Active Server Pages (Paperback)

The authors' succinct yet clear style allows them to explain ASP, JSCRIPT, and VBSCRIPT in less than 300 pages. After two years in print, this text remains the best for bringing experienced programmers to a productive level in ASP. Not a word is wasted, yet the text is entertaining. It is complete, providing exactly what is needed regarding the web server, ASP itself, and COM(ActiveX) interfaces to Visual Basic and C++. The text's style reminds me of the original Kernighan & Plaugher's classic "The C Programming Language". Let us hope that this text will inspire others to abandon the "fat book" syndrome of recent years and return to a clear writing style.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 4 years old and still a good book, May 4, 2001

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Wayne A Lambright (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ASP: Active Server Pages (Paperback)

This was the second asp book I ever bought and i keep coming back too it for help. it has a good example of how to build an advertisement banner managements system. I love that, and I recently looked into building my first com object, the book is an easy read, and sure its not all in depth like a wrox book but it is also not the cure for insomnia either.. if you can find one get it. Make sure the cd rom is in the back.. I use allot of the techniques i learned in the book on my site which is an asp recourse.