Customer Reviews

Beginning Components for ASP

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I'm really pleased to have found a book that gives so many practical examples of creating ASP components in VB. This books covers all the the technologies like XML and MTS that ASP developers should know about, and it does it well.

I've read other ASP component books from other publishers (such as Developing ASP component by Shelley Powers) but none have given so many examples, or been as technically deep and clear. With this book I've got a good handle on how to write my ASP components, which I just haven't got from other books.

Great book, thanks guys.

I just completed the book through to Chapter 15 where the case studies start up for the final three chapters. I had a tough time with this book. It seems to follow the mode of other Wrox books of being technically sound, but the spelling and grammar mistakes along with occasional errors in the examples make it a tough read. I learned a lot about creating ASP callable components in Visual C++ and VB. The use and coverage of the intrinsic ASP objects was very useful as were the DB examples using ADO and the OLEDB helper classes. Tough parts include the treatment of MTS and transactions. These parts were too much of an overview and seemingly incomplete. A discussion of why MTS is better than handling transactions than closer to the RDBMS itself would have been helpful (such as with ADO or SQL to the DB). I found the MSMQ and ADSI chapters to be too much of a gloss over to be helpful. Wrox has dedicated books for these two topics. All in all, the book isn't bad for some of the valuable information I got out of it, but it could have been better.

I found this book helpfull, day to day. I especially like the part about ATL. The reason that i gave just 4 stars is that i was hoping to get some more info of the OLE DB Templates and how to use them in NTier environment. If you familier with VB and you want to do some COM, and you see your self down the road moving on to ATL, this is the book for you. Also if you have done some C++, and COM freaks you out, give this book a shot.

I read this book and then the amazon reviews...I have no idea where the negative reviews are coming from. I had no problem getting the code to work. If you are an ASP developer looking to write components, this book has what you need. You will learn how to write your own VB and C++ components and have them connect to the backend with (or without) MTS as desired. You need to know C++ (of course) and some COM to get the most out of the C++ components section...which has a nice coverage of the various threading models. While not as theoretical as some COM books, it gives you enough COM to get your components up and running...If you are developing ASP components, this is the book.

I didn't read the book completly but, THIS IS THE BOOK, because it goes from the easy to hard steps just how a programmer wants; the very useful thing comes with MTS Components, right after the VERY WELL written chapters 3 and 4, using Universal data access. If you're an all time ASP developer, this is the natural step to maximize your apps. Buy it!.

This book bridges the gap between VB books and classes (which I have taken) and other ASP resources. I really like this book - it covers all the basics (I filled in many gaps in my knowledge and cleared up several misconceptions - such as what is the difference between COM objects and Active-X components), and methodically covers all the aspects of basic component writing. Another thing I really appreciate that the authors have done is that they are very up-front and frank about what the book does NOT cover and why. Topics such as Active-X controls, which could be considered components but really have nothing to do with the theme of the book, are explained briefly and then dismissed.

This book, along with the Wrox "Professional Active Server Pages" should be on the desk of any serious ASP student or programmer.

The copy I received has about 4 pages mis-printed such that they are very faint, but I managed to decipher them and could never bring myself to send the book back in to get a replacement.

The perfect book for learning or enhancing your ASP component programming skills. It thoroughly covers ASP component building in VB and C++. I particularly found the in-depth sections on scalability, resource management and transactions (MTS) to be very helpful.

This book is actually one you will want to read from cover to cover.

If there is one thing that I hate about computer books is that a great deal of effort is spent at the front of the book thanking the cat, the dog, the parents, the brothers and sisters, the goldfish for all the help and inspiration. Then they move on to the publisher, the agent, the technical editors etc.etc.

Same with this book. So I read the boring introduction. The usual story. I move on to the first chapter. Uninspired but interesting. First stupid example out the chute and it doesn't work.

And you know why. I will tell you why because all those people in the intro didn't do their JOB of checking the examples. They become buddy-buddy with the authors and out goes the critical and detached supervision that is needed.

I have a million DLLs, OCXs, ActiveXs on my PC that no one else has. But if I write a book, I MUST write it on a PC that has none of that. I can ASSUME nothing. Absolutely nothing.

It took me two days of hard yakka, reading the entire MS Scripting Technologies site to figure out what those three stooges forgot to mention. A great many things that they had already preconfigured on their PCs, but did bother telling the rest of us.

The technical editors being buddy-buddy with the the authors just get the heads-up on what they need to install. Oh Yes, everything works fine. Stuff the reader. Who cares about the reader ?

Well the reader is the stupid schmuck that goes out and buys your tripe. Think about that next time you publish a book.

If I could give this book a minus 5 stars I would.

This book has by far the only decent coverage of OLE DB using ATL in a book that is currently on sale.
and it is good on covering C++ ASP related code.

I was hoping their examples would be useful. theory is not bad, however, I could not get the example code working. I even downloaded code from wrox site and it still would not work. i wonder what their project manager was thinking. did anyone ever think of testing code?