Product Description
Updated to cover ASP 3.0 and IIS 5.0, ASP in a Nutshell provides the high-quality reference documentation that web application developers really need to create effective Active Server Pages. It focuses on how features are used in a real application and highlights little-known or undocumented features. The main components covered in this book are:
- Active Server Pages Introduction
Object Reference
Component Reference
Appendixes
Like other books in the In a Nutshell series this book offers the facts, including critical background information, in a no-nonsense manner that users will refer to again and again. It is a detailed reference that enables even experienced web developers to advance their ASP applications to new levels.Amazon.com Review
The second edition of ASP in a Nutshell gives developers of Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) a quick reference guide for looking up object usage on a dime. This guide is geared toward working ASP programmers who need to get their answers quickly, without wading through long examples.
The book is organized into three parts: an introduction to ASP, a language reference, and appendices. This edition has been updated for IIS 5.0 and ASP 3.0–respectively the latest flavors of Microsoft’s flagship Web server and scripting engines. The ASP introduction is very brief, but it adequately explains the basic concepts behind ASP and server-side scripting.
The heart of the title is the language reference that covers the intrinsic ASP objects, plus ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.6, Collaboration Data Objects, file access, and more. Each section is tagged with staggered page markers that usually make it unnecessary to resort to the book’s index to find a topic.
While there are no full-blown code examples, the small code fragments that are included for most objects are valuable in illustrating usage. Throughout, the information is accurate and to the point, which is exactly what busy programmers really need in a desktop reference. –Stephen W. Plain
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Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
I am a longtime ASP developer, and I do this for a living. I’ve read any number of ASP books written by people who don’t know what they’re talking about, but this one is definitely the very worst. The book is poorly formatted, poorly written, riddled with technical errors, and is a total waste of your time if you a serious developer. I wouldn’t waste my money on this turkey.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
I picked up this book when I was exploring web scripting/server technologies for some of my personal web projects (read: fun). While this book is a good reference for ASP methods, it doesn’t server as a very good introductory guide unless you’re familiar with Microsoft’s particular obfuscation of object-oriented programming.
Overall, the one good thing I got out of this book is that it’s much more difficult to develop large-scale web applications (read: 10,000+ lines of code) with ASP than it should be (although this could be my C/C++/Java bias showing through).
For now, I’ll be sticking with PHP, perl, Java, and C/C++ for my web programming. If you need a quick guide to ASP, look for another book on ASP, or, better yet, pick up a book on PHP or perl. PHP is an especially nice choice because of its easy database integration and extraordinary performance (with Zend, it’s several times faster than ASP).
However, if you’re already stuck using ASP for work or on your current projects, this book may be a good reference to have on hand.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
Being O’Reilly has published a great line of publications, I was expecting “ASP In A Nutshell” to be a lot like “Webmaster In A Nutshell”. It is not. In fact, the explanations are a little lengthy. Brief and to the point is what I expect out of a quick reference book. The usage (“example”) code is nice and I do find it beneficial to put the code in context. Overall it’s an intermediate level ASP reference guide.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
Someone handed me this book when I was just starting out with ASP. It took me days to even figure out where to start! By that time, I was so frustrated I went out and bought a tutorial and started from scratch- since that was still about all I knew after going from cover to cover of this book.
While this book can be a helpful reference now, I find myself never touching it. There are plenty of better reference books out there. Definately not worth the frustration.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5