Professional Active Server Pages 3.0

by Alex Homer, Brian Francis, Chris Blexrud

Building on the success of the first edition, this book brings the subject area up to date with its coverage of ASP 3.0. This title continues deep coverage where many other books only scratch the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861002610
• ISBN13: 9781861002617
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 1312 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 7.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Best ASP book ever

By far the best book available for VBScript and ASP development that I have run across. For the information in this one book, you could easily purchase 10 others and still not have the same content.

Must have for ASP Developers!

This book is a must have for all levels of ASP developers. The book is very clearly written and contains tons of ASP code examples. The book covers all aspect of ASP including the changes from ASP 2.0, data access using ADO, OLE DB, developing ASP components using VB, VC++, adding messaging to your asp pages, adding email support through CDO and more... I wasted no time in adding this book to my list of favorite VB internet programming books on my "Visual Basic Book Review " web site.

A must-read for enterprise web developers

Being an enterprise web developer, I found this book to be the absolute best in its field. It covers a very wide spectrum of fields any web developer working with Microsoft web technology should know, including ADO, ADSI, ASP, CDO, COM+, error handling, MSMQ, Windows DNA, XML, and a whole lot more (note that this book is primarily oriented at web developers who's target platform is Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0, but I also found it to be extremely useful for use on Windows NT 4.0 and IIS 4.0, since the authors clearly indicate features that are new to Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0). The writing style is absolutely excellent and gives clear tips on code optimization and performance. I have read literally dozens of different books on these subjects, and none has come close to this one. Although this book is not for beginners, it is, in my opinion, good for anyone who wants to advance their career on the web or become an web developer. This is definitely a book you will want to read from cover to cover, and use as a reference. At just about any price, it's a steal.

Comprehensive coverage of ASP 3.0 & other web technologies

It is a very comphensive book that covers the basic of ASP 3.0 and other web technologies like XML, COM+, and ADSI, etc. I did hestitate before buying this book from the web since I was only playing with the beta version of Win2000 server. However I need to work with ASP and IIS, therefore I bought this book.This book does cover lots of new things compared to Professional ASP 2.0 The new features of ASP 3.0 are briefly introduced in the chapter 1. There is a good coverage of ADO 2.5 in chpater 8. If you are familar with ASP 2.0, you can finish the first 10 chapters and can grasp the differences quickly. XML, IIS 5, active server components, COM/COM+, ASP Script Components, C++ component issues, ADSI and Active Directory, Message Queue Server, Collaboration Data Objects, Exchange Server integration, certificates, site load balancing, and ASP Object Model are introduced from chapter 11 to 27. These are heavy readings with minor typos. However these chapters worth the money. I have the Beginning and Professional ASP 2.0 Wrox books and the OReilly ASP book. I like Wrox better since they use lots of examples and their teaching style is very practical. This is a must have ASP book for many web developers.

Excellent, thorough, and good examples

I had the prior Wrox book, and I also have the O'Reilly ASP, but this one is a standout piece of work. It is thorough, covering everything from basic ASP to advanced ASP, with stops along the way for MTS/XML/XSL and related technologies.While I've found a few errors, they are mostly typos and I've run across no real deal-killers. Somewhat surprisingly, the book is well-written and gets its points across directly and with a minimum of fluff and arm-waving.Highly recommended.