Active Server Pages is Microsoft's technology for delivering dynamic, interactive Web applications. Mastering Active Server Pages 3 gives comprehensive coverage of the latest version for Visual Basic, VBScript, and Visual InterDev programmers. The book also covers the newest Linux/Unix version of ASP (ChiliASP) and discusses both VBScript and JScript implementations.
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Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) technology is popular for both Internet and intranet Web sites, thanks to its use of familiar Visual Basic script, easy access to databases, and integration with Windows NT and Windows 2000. This title is a complete guide to ASP 3 (the Windows 2000 version), but most of the book applies equally to ASP 2. No previous knowledge is assumed.
The author, Russell Jones, is the interactive-developer columnist for Visual Basic Programmer's Journal. The book begins with an overview of ASP and HTML, describes the intrinsic ASP objects that form the foundation for ASP programming, introduces both VBScript and JScript, and provides a guide to file access using the File System Object. A key to ASP is accessing data with Active Data Objects (ADO), and the database section describes both ADO and the SQL query language. The book also includes a brief look at transaction handling with Microsoft Transaction Server.
Final sections address the bigger picture: designing complete applications. The discussion of state management and general tips on application design are valuable. The book gives a brief introduction to developing your own components, alongside chapters on task scheduling, scalability, XML, and using ASP on Unix.
The strength of this book is also its weakness. In making it suitable for ASP beginners, the author has limited the space available for advanced topics. If you are looking for extensive coverage of COM+, more detail on ADO, or using ASP with Message Queue Server or Active Directory, for example, check out Professional Active Server Pages 3.0. On the other hand, beginning and intermediate developers will find Mastering Active Server Pages 3 an excellent starting point. --Tim Anderson
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best ASP book for Beginner through Intermediate,
By "d_sonewald" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mastering Active Server Pages 3 (Paperback)
Thirty chapters of very well taught material. The first half of the book is a very clear introduction to the ASP environment and how to use the intrinsic objects. The second covers other scripting objects, ADO, MTS, XML and how to plan your web site for scalability. The many code examples on the CD are concise, efficient, and scalable. I refer to them frequently. Although the book contains many examples of accessing databases through ADO in VBScript, he points out that this kind of thing is done much more efficiently in a COM component. He shows how to build VB COM components and how to use them in MTS through ASP. Most of the code is in VBScript; however, the surprising inclusion of JScript client side scripting and XML client and server side programming make for a very pleasant and well rounded learning experience. After bringing it to work, two coworkers also ordered it. I cannot think of a better recommendation than that.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Reference Tool... Webdevs must have this!,
By B Davis (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mastering Active Server Pages 3 (Paperback)
I was a raw beginner to ASP when I bought this book, I couldn't even read and write to a text file. This book covers starts at the very beginning with HTML and develops into scripting and then into ASP itself.It is an excellent reference tool. It covers the ASP Objects (Request, Response, Sessions, etc.) and succinctly covers the methods and properties by listing them in charts and exampling the fundamental use of the Objects using code samples. This book also covers CDONTS, which is an Object that can be used to send email via ASP code. CDONTS comes with IIS 4.0 or better. As well as several other optional Objects that ship with IIS. Want to connect to an Access Database? No problem, this book covers the ADODB Object and also covers rudimentary SQL to construct queries. There is also an Instant Reference available from the same author that is handy, when you don't want to lug around a big book!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome,
By Daniel Nelson (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mastering Active Server Pages 3 (Paperback)
This is a great overall book. I had a solid background in HTML, JavaScript, ect, and had done just a couple of things when I bought this.It's great to learn key concepts as well as to find the syntax for what you want to do. I've used several other asp books, namly the wrox beg and advanced, and I prefer this one. Even though the book's huge, I still have to look stuff up in other books or online, but that's to be expected. I wish he went into sql a little more. Recommended.
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