Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 552 pages
- Published by: Que Pub February 1, 1997
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 078971115X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0789711151
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 2 pounds
Publisher Description
Active Server Pages (ASP) is the single biggest feature of the latest version of Internet Information Server. Using the step-by-step instructions and real-world advice from this book, developers will discover how to use this technology to access key back-end services and build applications that can be used with any browser. - Complete Web site included, plus practical examples to illustrate key concepts in the book.
- Build dynamic Web sites without using CGI.
- CD-ROM includes
Microsoft's Internet Information Server, Web Server, Internet Explorer, utilities, and all of the examples and applications from the book
Reader Reviews
Plenty of trivial data. If you're using this book to learn ASP you won't even TOUCH a computer through the first 100 pages of being babied through "we remember when..." reflections (as if the authors are the only people who used computers prior to 1992). The other three quarters of the book are just thoroughly confusing and needlessly complex. For example, one of the early samples in the book, meant to demonstrate the Application Onstart Event, needlessly incorporates the ADO database connection and recordset objects, which aren't even explained for another five chapters. (It took me a while to figure out that I really wasn't supposed to understand the example.) The section on ADO references practical examples available on the book's website, which may have been helpful, but the website seems to have been taken down. Source code is available at the FTP site, but none of the required #include files nor a listing the actual directory structure the example uses are available (and just try explaining this problem to QUE's non-computer-literate customer support people). A complete waste of time and money.
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