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Debugging ASP: Troubleshooting for Programmers

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If you just look through the topics this book covers, it might interest you--which is why I decide to buy the book, especially after seeing a 5 star review here. However, the more you read on, the more disappointing you will be. Yeah, it did cover quite some points, but most of them are very shallow, the explanation does not go deep. You will find it begins with problems you met, explains things you normally know already, and then stop right there, leaving you as puzzled as before.

Just contrary to some previous reviews, to me, the 2 COM chapters are almost totally useless. My suggestion is, read those 2 chapters in the book store first, if you think it's valuable, then it probably is a book for you. But even if you do think those 2 chapters are great, you probably still want to check the title: professional ASP 3.0 by Wrox. That title worths 10 times the time and money you will put in "debugging asp". I was not so appreciative about professional asp 3.0 before, but after I read "debuggin asp", that Wrox book looks like an ASP bible to me.

At last, to be fair, I have not read chapter 9~12, so the above comment only applies to the other chapters.

Of all the books I've read about ASP development, this has got to be the absolute best! The 3 chapters on COM alone would more than justify the price of the book.

Having developed with Active Server Pages for a little over 3 years now (ever since they first came out), I really thought I knew it all. This book proved me wrong!

If you are debugging someone else's code, or writing your own, this has got to be the most helpful resource. Worth every penny, it is based on the premise that 80% of errors in ASP code arise from the same 10 or so problems: a huge time-saver.

Time and again it has proven a very handy desk reference. I have used ASP for 2 years now, but I wish I had read this book from day one. Deals with real-world programming problems - excellent info on COMs, connecting to SQL server.

I've only been doing ASP for about 6 months, and I found this book extremely helpful. There are a few things that I have always had questions about and others that I didn't understand at all. This hit just about all of them, and I feel as if I understand ASP much better now.

The only problem was that I was hoping for a little more coverage of .Net than this book contained -- only one Appendix. On the other hand, I haven't been able to find much else at the bookstore yet. So, this is probably about as good as you're going to do.

Since I have been using ASP for a year+ this book was easy reading for me. It contained anyway a set of extremely helpful hints and explanations on the 'world surrounding ASP' like IIS, mantainig state with sessions,file system problems, security,performance and of course debugging issues. If you already know the basics of ASP this is a great one to get.

I received this as a gift for my birthday. In general, I think a computer book is a fairly lousy birthday gift -- but this one almost made it worthwhile.

I don't think you could ask for a better book about Active Server Page development. All of the little mistakes I'd been making with COM components over the years suddenly became much clearer after reading through all of this.