ASP Internals

by Jon Flanders

Because the source code for ASP is not openly available, author Jon Flanders has created an ASP clone, Active COM Pages (ACP). In revealing its source code, he provides a view under the hood of ASP so... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201616181
• ISBN13: 9780201616187
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

yeah, yeah

Come on you bad reviewers. This book is pretty good. No, it's not end to end ASP Internals, but IIS isn't open source either. Interesting and informative coverage of SOME aspects of ASP. Transaction coverage is particuarly good.

A Very Good Resource To Know Pseudo Implementation of ASP

I found the book to be a very good resource to see pseudo implementation of ASP. The explanation is as good as real inside impelementation of ASP. This is book is not about samples on how to use ASP to write your web pages. It is more about how ASP works.

Update to a previous review

The source code is now available at Addison Wesley, but still no errata :-)

Concise and to the point

It was more useful than all the SDK samples and MSDN documentation. This book shows how to build your own ASP infrastructure using ISAPI.

The view of ASPs from underneath

A few years ago, I started an introductory course in Active Server Pages and wrote my own instructional material. Although it has always gone well, until now, I had never made the attempt to get deep under the hood and examine what is happening behind the scenes. It always seemed that delving into the C++ code would be a low Return On Investment (ROI) operation. When I first received this book, I read the blurbs and was somewhat skeptical. However, once I started, the reading was completed in less than a day, and the ROI was rather high. It was gratifying to learn that some of the implementations were as I had always suspected. The basics of underlying data transfer are thoroughly introduced and several of the points made in the book will be incorporated into the next rewrite of my ASP material. While it does help to understand C++, particularly Visual C++, it is not an absolute requirement. I learned more about the underlying mechanics of IIS and ASPs in the reading of this book than I have in over six sessions of a class where students and I always tinker with the code. If you have more than a passing interest in coding ASPs, then this is a book that will be of enormous value in learning how things are executed. The knowledge will also help you understand some of those infuriatingly cryptic errors.