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Teach Yourself: Microsoft Active Server Pages 3 1st Edition

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This excellent how-to book will teach you how to configure your system for Active Server Pages in a snap. Take a Web development refresher, get up to speed on VBScript and other ASP scripting tools, use ActiveX Data Objects to connect Web pages to databases, and harness ASP to manage cookies, user sessions, and transactions.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0764546015
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0764546013
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    John Wiley & Sons Inc
  5. Publication date
    June 13, 2000
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.75 x 1.5 x 8.75 inches
  8. Print length
    583 pages
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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) has become more than just a server-side scripting technology. It's transcended its basic definition to represent a development platform that continues to gain in popularity. Teach Yourself Microsoft Active Server Pages 3 combines tutorials in ASP 3 with lessons about related markup technologies, such as XML.

The book doesn't rush into discussing ASP pages. In fact, you won't encounter ASP coding until part III in chapter 14. The chapters leading up to ASP cover how to configure Web servers to use ASP pages and, more importantly, markup using both HTML and XML. Experienced HTML coders can skip these early sections, but the mix of XML and HTML techniques demonstrates nicely how both standards are closely related as markup languages. This is a welcome change from most books that present XML as a separate, advanced topic.

Topics are presented with a minimum of space and explanation. The coverage is sufficient, however, and the format makes for a quick read. There are no long code examples; instead, small code fragments are annotated to illustrate key concepts.

This book touches on an amazing number of subjects that are key to ASP development. The tradeoff is a lack of depth. However, each concept, efficiently introduced, provides many references to sites on the Web for more information on particular subjects. This title is a good way to step up to ASP programming overnight. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered:

    1. ASP architecture
    2. IIS configuration
    3. Personal Web server setup
    4. Chili!Soft ASP
    5. XML
    6. DTDs
    7. Lists
    8. Tables
    9. Frames
    10. Forms
    11. XSL style sheets
    12. VBScript
    13. JavaScript
    14. Using PerlScript
    15. Built-in ASP objects
    16. ASP components
    17. Database integration and ADO
    18. Using XML with ASP pages
    19. Client/server Web applications

From the Publisher

Covers major aspects of ASP development such as marketing up web pages, adding scripts to documents, using objects, accessing and manipulation database, and using ASP with Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS)

Describes preparing for ASP -- setting up Windows NT/2000 and IIS 4 and 5, Windows 95/98 and the Personal Web Server, and Chili!ASP for Apache on Sun Solaris

Provides a primer for HTML and XML for building a Web front-end for databases

Explains how to use scripts to connect to objects and databases including using built-in IIS Objects, using Cookies and the Session Object, supporting Web transactions, creating client/server web applications, and integrating databases and web pages

Unique features of the book include using cross-platform ASP with Chili!Soft, and XML

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Wiley & Sons Inc; 1st edition (June 13, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 583 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764546015
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764546013
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.9 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 1.5 x 8.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:

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3 out of 5 stars
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Rebecca Sierant
2.0 out of 5 stars Try again...
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2005
Anyone who has experience with HTML, XML, JScript, or VBScript, should avoid this book. The first half is introductions to the above languages with very little or no ASP. Most examples are suitable and others a poorly done and leave too much to the imagination.
The slow pace seems to assume the authors expect the reader to have no programming or webpage development background at all, however some of the examples seem so vague in places it would be difficult for a beginner to piece it all together.
I don't recommend this book to anyone who is learning ASP or any other mentioned language. While the book does baby step the reader towards more complicated work, I believe it doesn't cover the fundamentals it mentions fully. I suggest reading books on HTML, then CSS, and then ASP. With those three, anyone would be able to make a spiffy looking website with tons of features.
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Nathan Stickney
4.0 out of 5 stars Active Server Pages 3.0 by Sandra E Eddy Review
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2000
The books was very helpful in my programming. I used many of the examples from book in my code. I think that if you are a beginner wanting to learn some Server side scripting this book will be an excellent place for you to start. Thanks
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Brent Elliott
2.0 out of 5 stars Scattered and indecisive...
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2000
It's very obvious this book is written by a staff. In attempting to hold your hand from the very most basic concept of a web page, to a fully database enabled ASP site (in 500 pages??), this book passes over nearly every necessary piece of information you could need. If you already know HTML, then half of this book is already worthless to you. And the authors of this book can't seem to decide whether they perfer HTML to XML, or VBScript to JScript. Examples of all of the above are scattered throughout the book, and leave you wondering which one you should know. Not to mention the "article style" format of this book, where each concept is intrduced and concluded in a 2 page block (whether the concept has been fully explored or not, they're gonna fit it into two pages), and right when you think you're going in one direction with ASP, they come in with an article about XML, and you're scratching your head again. My advice: if you know HTML, and you want to really learn how to program Active Server Pages, and not just scratch the surface, get a book on VBScript (not JScript) with more depth and less breadth.
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