ASP: Active Server Pages (Paperback)

by Andrew M. Fedorchek (Author), David K. Rensin (Author)

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Product Description
In an age in which technological Next Big Things have the lifespan of a mayfly, Microsoft's Active Server Pages development tool for the World Wide Web is sure to prove an exception. This you can prove for yourself, thanks to ASP: Active Server Pages by authors and Internet development consultants Andrew M. Fedorchek and David K. Rensin.

A book and software package designed especially for professional Internet developers, ASP: Active Server Pages covers all major aspects of the Microsoft ASP, including

Building ASP pages with VBScript Understanding the ASP internal object model Taking advantage of external ASP components such as the Database Access and Advertisement Rotator Components Writing your own ASP components in Visual Basic and ActiveX components in Visual C++ Plus, on the CD-ROM accompanying ASP: Active Server Pages, you get all the source code presented in the book along with ready-to-use applications for tracking advertising hits and reading and writing POP3 e-mail.

Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing (July 25, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764580426
• ISBN-13: 978-0764580420
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,415,219 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very inconclusive, assumes too much access to web server, August 9, 1998

By	[e-mail] (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews

The authors assumed that all web designers have access to the web server machine, which in fact is usually not the case. I myself being the senior web designer at a fairly large company, do not have the access privileges to write to files outside the HTTP directory or CGI-BIN. The root of the web server is forbbiden to everyone except the System Administrators. Any request to change system files or upload data sources can take days to implement or even weeks. I also have my personal web site hosted by a seperate internet host provider. Which I have no access to load any of the DLL files from the book to test or use. I do have an ASP directory but almost all of the examples in the book call functions or objects from their DLL's. Therefore, I can only assume these functions work as stated in the book. I did find the general information useful as to how ASP page are implemented and the robust features ASP offers to developers.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still the best intro to ASP for programmers, October 16, 1999

By	M. Kersey (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The authors' succinct yet clear style allows them to explain ASP, JSCRIPT, and VBSCRIPT in less than 300 pages. After two years in print, this text remains the best for bringing experienced programmers to a productive level in ASP. Not a word is wasted, yet the text is entertaining. It is complete, providing exactly what is needed regarding the web server, ASP itself, and COM(ActiveX) interfaces to Visual Basic and C++. The text's style reminds me of the original Kernighan & Plaugher's classic "The C Programming Language". Let us hope that this text will inspire others to abandon the "fat book" syndrome of recent years and return to a clear writing style.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 4 years old and still a good book, May 4, 2001

By	Wayne A Lambright (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This was the second asp book I ever bought and i keep coming back too it for help. it has a good example of how to build an advertisement banner managements system. I love that, and I recently looked into building my first com object, the book is an easy read, and sure its not all in depth like a wrox book but it is also not the cure for insomnia either.. if you can find one get it. Make sure the cd rom is in the back.. I use allot of the techniques i learned in the book on my site which is an asp recourse.