Product Description

ASP is the future of the web. With ASP you can customize your web pages to be more dynamic, more efficient and more responsive to your users. It is not just a technology though, to get the best out of ASP you will be using it in tandem with HTML and with one or more of the web's simple scripting languages. This book will teach you everything you need to create useful real-world applications on the web.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1458022 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 672 pages

From Amazon.com
If you're new to Web development--or even new to programming in general--Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0 is good place to start for learning how to program with Active Server Pages (ASPs) using Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). In this accessible and clearly written text, the authors do a fine job of presenting the basics of using ASPs in digestible increments, including how to program with databases.

The book starts with the basics of client-side technologies--using HTML with JavaScript and VBScript. Once these terms are introduced, the move toward server-side processing and ASPs begins. The authors include the basics of setting up Personal Web Server (with screen shots) and the fundamentals of using ASPs to process simple user requests on a server.

Next, the authors look at some of the objects available in ASP programming (including Request, Response, Applications, Sessions, and Cookies objects). They present the basics of customizing Web content for particular browsers and managing indexes of pages. The sections on debugging ASPs--including how to use the Microsoft Script Debugger--are also useful.

Some of the book's best material is in its coverage of the Microsoft databases, including ActiveX Data Object (ADO), open database connectivity (ODBC), and the newer object linking and embedding database (OLE-DB) standards. The authors describe the basic objects used to manipulate data with ASPs. The book rounds out with a sizeable example that uses live data for an online classified section, complete with user bidding for items. --Richard Dragan

Ingram
While this may be a "basic ASP" book, ASP is being looked at not only by novice Web developers, but by experienced developers and Webmasters wanting to develop a second or third generation Web site. Illustrated with lots of real world examples, these pages show how to use Visual InterDev and Access 97 to develop ASP applications.

Book Info
Covers a simple Internet programming language VBScript-and a free version of the ASP technology, which makes it the ideal first step for the aspiring Web Professional. Paper.