Active Server Pages Unleashed [Paperback]

Stephen Walther (Author)

Book Description

Series: Unleashed | Publication Date: December 1997

Packed with illustrations and real-world examples, Active Server Pages Unleashed shows you how to fully exploit the Active Server to create dynamic Web sites. Learn to create dynamic and powerful Web-based business solutions with Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP enables server-side scripting for IIS with native support for both VBScript and Jscript. Features in-depth explanations of the Active Server, BackOffice, and Visual Studio. Also covers data access, security, and Web page creation using Active Server Components. Explore the publishing, component-supporting capabilities of IIS 4, hone HTML skills for effective Active Server Pages programming, and build interactive web forms.

Product Details

• Paperback: 996 pages
• Publisher: Sams Publishing; Pap/Dskt edition (December 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575213516
• ISBN-13: 978-1575213514
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,552,257 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stephen Walther is a Microsoft Software Legend. He worked as a Program Manager on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft where he was responsible for making the ASP.NET Framework compliant with Web Standards such as XHTML and Accessibility standards.

Through his companies SuperexpertTraining.com and SuperexpertConsulting.com, he has provided consulting and training services for companies across the United States including NASA, the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Verizon, the US House of Representatives, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Petco, and The Gap.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A web development book, not all ASP, December 10, 1999

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J. D. Mclellan (New England, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Active Server Pages Unleashed (Paperback)

If your looking for straight ASP don't buy this book. This book spends a big chuck on HTML, then SQL (just straight SQL not via ASP pages), and it explores VBScript and JScript. It makes a nice over-all reference book but it would be disapponting if ASP is all you wanted. I look at this book as part one of two. The next book to get is Active Server Pages 2.0 Unleashed. ASP 2.0 book ignores all the basics of this first ASP book and dives into the fun stuff. But if your new to ASP and VBScript definitely get the Active Server Pages Unleashed book first. This book is probably my number one reference book as it covers a lot of material.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for beginners, but intermediate to advanced..., February 26, 1999

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

The book begins by explaining how to set up IIS and NT. That's nice, but, if I wanted to know that I would have bought IIS Unleashed and NT Server Unleashed.

This book also contains JScript (not JavaScript) and HTML references, in addition to its VBScript references. This is good if you're just getting into web authoring. But, for those of us who are already familiar with these and are looking for a definitive language, DOM, and ASP Component reference, this is not the book.

It gives some pretty good examples of some intermediate ASP techniques. However, this book's focus is NOT on ASP, but general page setup and development using ASP to spice it up a bit. This is an excellent book for beginners, just delving into ASP.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One of the best in ASP, July 1, 2000

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Rajesh Subramanian (India) - See all my reviews

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

This is book is very useful for the beginners. If you want to start ASP for the first time means surely this book will do all for you.