The Active Server: A Developer's Guide (Paperback)

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Product Description

Transform your server into an Active server and breathe new life into your Web site. Working in an Active Server environment enables you to turn static Web pages into dynamic content, enhance the functionality of your pages, add database connectivity, and more.

Active Server™: A Developers Guide guides you through the process of creating and maintaining Active Pages. You get detailed instruction on writing Active Server code, assembling Active Server applications, and setting up your Active Server environment. You also get useful tips on optimizing server security, scripting with VBScript, using component-based transaction processing, building a database, and troubleshooting.

The CD-ROM is packed with helpful tutorials, source code from the book, and a copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.

Product Details

• Paperback: 355 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers) (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558515763
• ISBN-13: 978-1558515765
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,618,754 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, thoughtful book. I really enjoyed this book., November 1, 1998

By A Customer

This book has many things to bring to the table that neither the WROX Professional ASP and QUE Special Edition Using ASP offers. This author covered many things none of the other books did. The things I enjoyed are a) Thoughtful InterDev coverage, not mindless coverage like other books b) Pro FrontPage approach (I do my entire site with FrontPage and ASP) c) Q and A sections and technical article references were superb. d) URL List was a fertile base of research, you covered a lot of obscure URLs I did not know of and I appreciate your broadening my knowledge. e) The beginning programs were imaginative and useful not just a rehash of the ASP roadmap. I particularly like the arrays and CreateText file sample. Conciseness is an art form and doing a book one quarter the size of others while having massive amounts of useful information is a major accomplishment. This is really a nice piece of work and I find something useful on practically every page.

4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive all purpose guide, October 30, 1998

By A Customer

I found this book to be very comprehensive in its treatment of the subject matter. Apparently, the author didn't want to focus on Active Server Pages exclusively, but chose to include a look at the overall Active Server development environment from a 50000 foot view. I find myself referring to this book often for quick tips on NT, ASP, and Visual InterDev. I'd recommend it.

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing - Not Recommended, June 27, 1998

By A Customer

This is not a good book. It presents remarkably little information. The pages are filled with large, useless screen shots. Page 66 (as another example) is a step-by-step process for creating a text file in Notepad including when to press Enter at each line break. Chapter 11 (page 201) is entitled "Working with Hyperlinks" -- more than half way through the book. I wanter to learn more about ASPs than I could get from Microsoft's Web site. I didn't. Now I'm looking for a better book.