Product Description

Updated to cover ASP 3.0 and IIS 5.0, ASP in a Nutshell provides the high-quality reference documentation that web application developers really need to create effective Active Server Pages. It focuses on how features are used in a real application and highlights little-known or undocumented features. The main components covered in this book are:

Active Server Pages IntroductionObject ReferenceComponent ReferenceAppendixes

Like other books in the In a Nutshell series this book offers the facts, including critical background information, in a no-nonsense manner that users will refer to again and again. It is a detailed reference that enables even experienced web developers to advance their ASP applications to new levels.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #433890 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 492 pages

Amazon.com Review
The second edition of ASP in a Nutshell gives developers of Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) a quick reference guide for looking up object usage on a dime. This guide is geared toward working ASP programmers who need to get their answers quickly, without wading through long examples.

The book is organized into three parts: an introduction to ASP, a language reference, and appendices. This edition has been updated for IIS 5.0 and ASP 3.0--respectively the latest flavors of Microsoft's flagship Web server and scripting engines. The ASP introduction is very brief, but it adequately explains the basic concepts behind ASP and server-side scripting.

The heart of the title is the language reference that covers the intrinsic ASP objects, plus ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.6, Collaboration Data Objects, file access, and more. Each section is tagged with staggered page markers that usually make it unnecessary to resort to the book's index to find a topic.

While there are no full-blown code examples, the small code fragments that are included for most objects are valuable in illustrating usage. Throughout, the information is accurate and to the point, which is exactly what busy programmers really need in a desktop reference. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered:

ASP overview Application of ASP objects ASPError ObjectContext Request Response Server Session Global.ASA Installable components (ActiveX Data Objects 2.6) Ad Rotator Browser capabilities CDO for Windows NT

Content linking Content Rotator Counters File access Logging utility MyInfo Page counter Permission checking Tools Converting CGI/WinCGI applications ASP on other platforms Configuring IIS

From Library Journal
ASP (active server pages) technology is a model of dynamic information service, which means the user gets customized information rather than static, designed-for-everyone html pages. ASP also has an open-source initiative, which gives legs to ASP outside of Microsoft; presently it runs on everything from Microsoft to Unix/Linux, Mac, and SGI. This manual is not for beginners, but this is a highly lucrative area at the moment.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
'Like other in the 'In a Nutshell' series this book offers the facts, critical background information, in a straight forward manner that users will find useful. It is a detaifled reference that enables even experienced web developers to advance their ASP skills. Alternatively any novice web developer should gain the necessary knowledge and understanding to produce a technically sound site and to move from client to server side development.' - Andrew Dytham, News@UK, March 2001

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Customer Reviews

Remember, it's a reference book
Keep in mind that this, and all "....in a Nutshell" books are designed to be reference material, not how to books. From that standpoint, this is an excellant desk reference for any ASP developer. After using another book to ease into ASP, this one became my standby for day to day development. If you are looking for something to teach you ASP, look elsewhere and then buy this one when you're done.

Very good reference
Though I use this book sometimes for reference i really must i did not need this book. I guess i am more advanced in ASP than i knew. This book is not a guide for beginners but for someone intermediate who wants to explore more of the features of ASP. There are many things i've learned from the book, which i didn't know was possible before. It's a very good reference book, but it is not a tutorial or anything like that, so if you are a beginner and need a guide to asp then do not buy this book. The only bad thing about it is that it should have covered more of using databases and sql with asp. I would recommend this book for someone who are intermediate asp-developers or someone in the middle between beginner and intermediate and want to take the next step.

Reference, not a book to learn ASP
This book is a reference. All it does it quickly mention all classes, objects and properties and explain what they do. This way some fundamental explanation is left out (while some trivial information has been copy-pasted dozens of times). As I am a professional VB and VBA programmer, I figured ASP wouldn't be too hard with a reference manual. Yet I failed to get "the big picture" with this book. I reckon it'll be a good reference for those that already have another ASP book...