ASP 2.0 Programmer's Reference (Paperback)

~ David Sussman (Author), Brian Francis (Author), Alex Homer (Author), Chris Ullman (Author), Dan Maharry (Author), Alex Federov (Author)

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Amazon.com Review

ASP (Active Server Pages) is a Microsoft technology that provides a framework for developers to construct dynamic Web pages. These pages can interact with custom-built components or databases to produce solid and interesting Internet/intranet sites and Web-based applications. A succinct and eminently portable book, ASP 2.0 Programmer's Reference is a resource Internet/intranet developers will find they use again and again.

The book covers the entire range of ASP commands and functions--from the standard objects (Request, Response, Application, Session, and Server), through the built-in scripting objects and supporting technologies, to a view of the next version, ASP 3. Nine appendices complement the information and cover subjects like the ADO (Active Data Object) object model, the Microsoft scripting run-time reference, and HTTP 1.1 header codes. The style is concise but clear, with graphical illustrations to help communicate the ASP structure and relationships. In addition, comprehensive examples are provided throughout the book to reinforce the command syntax required.

ASP 2.0 Programmer's Reference is not for the novice developer or for those looking for a guide to IIS. This book is aimed at accomplished ASP developers and at anyone involved in application development on the World Wide Web. --Rebecca Loades, Amazon.co.uk

Product Description

This book provides a reference to Microsoft Active Server Pages version 2.0, one of the key technologies underpinning the Microsoft Web Server, Internet Information Server 4. ASP allows server side scripting to dynamically construct web pages, interact with server based components, such as business objects, and manipulate databases.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 349 pages
• Publisher: Peer Information Inc.; 1st edition (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861002459
• ISBN-13: 978-1861002457
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,015,025 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Reference Book, December 9, 1999

By	"caligari" (Irvine, California) - See all my reviews

Very good reference book. This is what I learned ASP from. Intended for an intermediate programmer with knowledge of programming and uses vbscript examples. So if you know VBScript already, this book will get you programming ASP in no time. One thing that this book lacks is a language reference. Other than that it's great.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Weak effort by stellar ASP publisher, March 16, 1999

By	Ken Baumbach "Captain Attitude" (Round Rock, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was very disappointed with this book. All of the other ASP books by WROX are excellent, so I felt safe in buying this work, assuming it would be excellent as well. Unfortunately, I was wrong. The main problem is the layout. Most programmer references are laid out in a dictionary style format. ASP 2.0 Programmer's Reference in laid out in chapters instead, making it difficult to find code snippets. To do so, one must search through the Index. For example: to find about Request.Form, you look in the Index and find: Request.Form collection. See Form Collection. Then you flip to Form Collections, 38-45 and then you have to search pages 38-45 to find anything...very irritating. Most of the book is like that. That is not to say that the book is completely without merit. The chapter on ASP 3.0 and what it will bring is mildly entertaining and informative. If you don't already have Beginning ASP 2.0, Professional ASP 2.0 and Professional ASP Techniques for Webmasters, any of those fine books would be a better investment.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jump Starts Your Web Development Skills, July 14, 1999

By A Customer

This book did me good. As an independent consultant, I have to constantly retrain at my own expense. In a few nights, I read 200 pages and was building small ASP database applications. It is worth a lot more than I paid for it. ASP 2.0 is very organized. It covers the basics from setting up the ASP environment to how to organize a good ASP application. While advertised as a programmer's reference, it has a lot more than just lists of objects and methods. It was enough to bridge me from C++ gunslinger to ASP pea-shooter. I found it thorough to an appropriate level, fast to read, and with a focus on performance. It does expect you to pick up VBScript yourself, but there are enough code snippets that I managed without having ever used VB more than a day. They can't cover every detail in a book of this brevity and I'm glad they didn't. If they did, I'd still be reading and not writing code.