Active Server Pages Solutions: An Essential Guide for Dynamic, Interactive Web Site Development (Paperback)

~ Al Williams (Author), Kim Barber (Author), Paul Newkirk (Author)

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Product Description

Active Server Pages Solutions explores all of the components that work with Active Server Pages, such as HTML (including Dynamic HTML), scripting, ActiveX controls, Java applets, Internet Information Server and Internet Explorer. Seasoned Web developers Al Williams, Kim Barber, and Paul Newkirk show you how to combine ASP with other technologies, including client-side script, Java, and DHTML, to create compelling Web content that is personalized and user-relevant. This book contains practical advice that you can use everyday to create powerful sites that connect to databases, handle user integration, and more. You'll also find special chapters devoted to using Visual InterDev or FrontPage, and many examples of custom client-side and server-side objects using Visual Basic and Java.TOC: Chapter 1 - The World Wide WhyChapter 2 - Jump Right InChapter 3 - Server-Side Scripting in VBScriptChapter 4 - Server-Side Scripting in JavaScriptChapter 5 - Server-Side ObjectsChapter 6 - The Client

About the Author

Al Williams (League City, TX) is the Java columnist and development section editor for Web Techniques magazine. He is the author of over a dozen popular computer books, including Active Server Pages Solutions, MFC Black Book, and Developing ActiveX Web Controls. His writing credentials also include the Windows Commando column for Visual Developer Magazine. In addition to consulting, Al frequently lectures on programming all over the United States.

Al Williams (League City, TX) has written 10 programming books, numerous magazine articles and columns for Dr. Dobbs SourceBook and Visual Developer Magazine. Kim Barber (Grove City, OH) and Paul Newkirk (Columbus, OH) are both CompuServe employees with extensive Web and online community experience. Kim has written training modules on HTML and Active Server Pages Development. Paul is a professional technical writer with several years experience in Web development.

Kim Barber (Grove City, OH) is a CompuServe employee with extensive Web and online community experience. Kim has written training modules on HTML and Active Server Pages Development.

Product Details

• Paperback: 632 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books (March 23, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157610608X
• ISBN-13: 978-1576106082
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,472,278 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Starting Point for ASP beginners, January 18, 2001

By	Christopher LaVesser "onbelay74" (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews

You will find this book very helpful if you are new to Active Server Pages. The book describes very clearly what ASP is, how it works, what it does, etc. This book will also make the beginner comfortable with how to write basic VBscript or similar in order to code their Active Server Pages. Wonderful coverage is given to all the basic ASP objects, their properties, and methods and how to invoke the power of each. This book has some funny prose to it and is not overly in-depth, but it will make a newcomer comfortable with integrating their current html skills, client-side scripting skills, and ASP into useful applications.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for both advanced and beginners, May 26, 2000

By A Customer

Excellent guide for developping dynamic, Interactive Web Site. This book goes into relevent details and guides you through the process of development without assuming that you have 20 years of development experience behind you.

I would recommend it for junior developpers

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not just ASP., October 18, 2000

By	Leon Degeling (Amsterdam, nh Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This book is not just about ASP. This book contains chapters on just about everything you can put on a website. (dynamic) HTML, client (in vb) and serversidescripting (vb & jscript). Building components, java-applets, database-access. You name it, and it's there. The downside is that this quite expensive book it not detailed enough. The only chapters that are reasonably complete are the ones about Jscript and VBscript. The others will not get you much further than some "hello world"-like application. The other thing that I don't like about the book that it is very Internet Explorer oriented. The chapters on HTML are completely unusable for netscape-browsers, and this is the only book I know that boasts Vb as a client-side scripting language. Add the very irritatng introductions of the chapters and there you have it. Not a book for pro's, but I can imagine it being usefull for people who wish to know a little about a lot of things and are prepared to buy seperate books for the items they are actually interested in.