Working With Active Server Pages [Paperback]

Michael Corning (Author), Steve Elfanbaum (Author), David Melnick (Author)

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Active Server Pages (ASP) is the single biggest feature of the latest version of Internet Information Server. Using the step-by-step instructions and real-world advice from this book, developers will discover how to use this technology to access key back-end services and build applications that can be used with any browser. - Complete Web site included, plus practical examples to illustrate key concepts in the book.

- Build dynamic Web sites without using CGI.

- CD-ROM includes Microsoft's Internet Information Server, Web Server, Internet Explorer, utilities, and all of the examples and applications from the book

Product Details

• Paperback: 552 pages
• Publisher: Que Pub (February 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078971115X
• ISBN-13: 978-0789711151
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 1.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,289,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's rather harmful than helpful, August 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Working With Active Server Pages (Paperback)

I found this book to be surprisingly confusing and that's why I consiter it to be harmful -- you'll spend your time but won't gain anything useful. If I had a chanse I would bring this book back for refund. Total waste of money and time.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Time..., March 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Working With Active Server Pages (Paperback)

Maybe if you have been programming in c++ for twenty years you would have an easier time understanding why they go into such lengths to talk about OOP. Filled with unclear examples, trivial personal asides and a egotistical writing style that drove me nuts. I kept hearing The Church Lady saying "Well, we like ourselves, don't we...". I agree one-hundred percent with everything that the other reviewers giving a score of 1 star have said. This book is a waste of time!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars SET objThisBook = Server.CreateFrustration("QUEBooks"), August 26, 1999

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D. Snider "Blogger / Podcaster / Tech Geek" (Fishers, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Working With Active Server Pages (Paperback)

Plenty of trivial data. If you're using this book to learn ASP you won't even TOUCH a computer through the first 100 pages of being babied through "we remember when..." reflections (as if the authors are the only people who used computers prior to 1992). The other three quarters of the book are just thoroughly confusing and needlessly complex. For example, one of the early samples in the book, meant to demonstrate the Application Onstart Event, needlessly incorporates the ADO database connection and recordset objects, which aren't even explained for another five chapters. (It took me a while to figure out that I really wasn't supposed to understand the example.) The section on ADO references practical examples available on the book's website, which may have been helpful, but the website seems to have been taken down. Source code is available at the FTP site, but none of the required #include files nor a listing the actual directory structure the example uses are available (and just try explaining this problem to QUE's non-computer-literate customer support people). A complete waste of time and money.