ASP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

ASP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Authors
Keyton Weissinger
ISBN
1565928431
Published
06 Jul 2000
Purchase online
amazon.com

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.

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Editorial Reviews

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

Topics covered:

  • ASP overview
  • Application of ASP objects
  • ASPError
  • ObjectContext
  • Request
  • Response
  • Server
  • Session
  • Global.ASA
  • Installable components (ActiveX Data Objects 2.6)
  • Ad Rotator
  • Browser capabilities
  • CDO for Windows NT

  • Content linking
  • Content Rotator
  • Counters
  • File access
  • Logging utility
  • MyInfo
  • Page counter
  • Permission checking
  • Tools
  • Converting CGI/WinCGI applications
  • ASP on other platforms
  • Configuring IIS
  • 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 IntroductionObject ReferenceComponent ReferenceAppendixes
    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.

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