Instant ASP Scripts (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Active Server Pages (ASP) technology represents, in most cases, the best server-side scripting choice for intranets, extranets, and public Web sites served by Windows NT and Internet Information Server (IIS). Instant ASP Scripts provides network administrators with a crash course in ASP work along with a considerable library of ready-to-use scripts.

An initial ASP tutorial explains the basics of the language, but the really interesting educational material accompanies the scripts in the library. With each program, the author comments on whatever interesting tricks he's used, excerpting the code as needed. The book touches on pretty much everything ASP can do (including its considerable power to interact with databases).

The library includes a script that runs a suggestion box, another that runs a vote counter, one that files requests for purchase orders, and a whole bunch of calculators. You'll also find scripts for rotating banner ads, a script that walks the surfer through a troubleshooting tree, and a script that tracks vacation time. Rather than pad his book with gee-whiz scripts having little practical value, Greg Buczek has built a collection of scripts that are useful just as they are and can be modified to fit other situations. (All the code appears on the companion CD-ROM.) --David Wall

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There are tons of books for ASP scripts, but this one has all the qualities to make it one of the best: It is comprehensive, has a reference, and is well-written. The examples are very well chosen and will attract people from many walks of life and industries. All in all, this is the book for ASP scripting. Recommended. --Moshe Bar -- byte.com

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Product Details

• Paperback: 860 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; Bk&CD Rom edition (July 16, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071352058
• ISBN-13: 978-0071352055
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,000,128 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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39 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally an ASP book with a complete set of working examples, October 22, 1999

By A Customer

I have been developing software for more years than id like toadmit and have been doing quite a bit of Microsoft stuff since therefirst product that could concievably be called an operating system appeared in 1995. I have also been writing quite a bit of ASP in the last few years and "Instant ASP Scripts" is a great resource for beginners and experts alike. The primary reason for this is its large and diverse set of complete working examples. All to often, programming language reference books go on and on blabbering about the semantics, syntax, history, theory, proper style, quotes from the authors favorite philosophers, ... Then the examples they present or either trivial and don't help you with what you are trying to do or they are gigantic and take hours to decipher. When I am developing software, I want a book that has relevant working examples that I can understand in 5 minutes and will show me how to do the things I need to do NOW. Mr Buczek has delivered exactly that in this book and I look forward to more of the same in the near future!

I feel I must comment on a previous review that made some disparaging remarks about Mr. Buczek's code. I seriously doubt that the code is intended to be copied byte for byte into any enterprise application. This is a reference to quickly find out how to make something work in ASP and its the software developers job to leverage that infomation and make it "enterprise ready" in the target application. I am a seasoned ASP developer and I am not appaled by the code in this book! I take it for what it is, a great reference! One of the reasons I have pursued advanced degrees in Computer Science is my frustration with and desire to move far beyond these kinds boorish attitudes and petty comments about style, design, methodology, ... We are in the STONE AGE of computer software and the most eloquent design, the most advanced methodology, the most perfectly designed code or any other object oriented / state of the art c**p you want to apply will get you no where close to developing the software equivalent of goat brain! Does anyone know if the goat brain code is clean and wonderful? After a billion years of evolution, its probably a mass of spaghetti code, but there is no doubt that it is "a full featured enterprise application" far beyond our current pitiful capabilities.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Structured very well, SQL and VB intensive, December 15, 1999

By	Ross Richards (TAFE student) (Australia) - See all my reviews

The book is excellent apart from missing a couple of critical parts. It could have had a few pages on Access Databases and also it could have had a few pages on javascripted asp and the set up of it. As I am a intermediate java programmer with no VB skills, some areas where very grey when converting them over or just doing plain VB was difficult. Overall it is a very good book and I only bought it after reading the reviews on amazon.com. It is worthy of the 5 stars since most books cannot match the way it is taught. This book combined with some other urls (ie www.activeserverpages.com/learn/toc.asp ) it is very useful. I can recommend a book with this consistent teaching applied.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Through Reference, February 15, 2000

By	Otto Eixmann Jr. (USA) - See all my reviews

I own a lot of books on ASP but none like this. It is filled with examples of nothing but ASP code that can be used in a business environment as well as personal which are throughly explained. I have used his examples to write code of my own. I have installed his examples on my own web server and they always work correctly. The databases are written in SQL but not provided, which is not a problem because the code to generate them is included. I keep a copy of this book at home and at the office for reference. On occasion I have e-mailed Mr. Buczek with a question about an example, he has always responded and tried to help as much as he can.