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Designing Active Server Pages
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by Scott Mitchell
Sales Rank: 665908
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$0.01
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Paperback: 348 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition September 18, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596000448
ISBN-13: 978-0596000448
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Product Review
Designing Active Server Pages provides an important tool for often-overworked ASP programmers: a set of techniques for making the wisest use of the technology in a production environment. Targeting an audience of readers who already are seasoned in ASP, author Scott Mitchell explores techniques for producing "reusable and robust ASP applications."
Presentation and example compose the approach here, with concise tables of information and descriptions that make the book a fast read. Mitchell explores the benefits of the VBScript 5.0 scripting engine, and illustrates how to exploit the new RegExp object fully and build object-oriented code by using VBScript classes--another welcome addition to the coding platform. ASP programmers will find techniques for which they've been longing, such as centralized error-handling pages and reusable database administration forms.
Creation of and best practices for implementing COM components, useful standard components (like the Content Linker and AdRotator), and third-party components (such as ASPEncrypt and SA-FileUp) are discussed. Designing Active Server Pages doesn't stop with mere descriptions of these components, but also provides solutions for common needs, such as uploading files to binary fields in Microsoft SQL Server and sending encrypted e-mail.
With its advanced techniques and practical perspective, this book is perfect for those who look to stay on the cutting edge of ASP programming. --Stephen W. Plain
Topics covered: - Choosing a server-side scripting language
- Exception handling
- Regular expressions
- Building reusable forms
- Reusable database administration pages
- COM overview
- Lesser-known Microsoft COM components
- Important third-party COM components
Product Description
Developers of Active Server Pages often reinvent the wheel. Their background in web design, with its separate HTML page for each viewable web page on a site, leads many ASP developers to create a distinct ASP page each time they think they need one. Often times, these pages are functionally similar. With intelligent planning, an ASP developer stands to save a great deal of time by creating reusable ASP pages.
"Designing Active Server Pages" is tailor-made for these developers.
There is currently a plethora of Active Server Pages books. However, the vast majority of these books are either technical references or how-to books for beginners. "Designing Active Server Pages" is written for the intermediate to advanced user. Furthermore, nearly every other book on ASP focuses on using VBScript, even though ASP supports an array of scripting languages, including JScript and PerlScript. "Designing Active Server Pages" shows how to start using these other languages.
The latest version of the scripting engines (Version 5.1 for VBScript) adds new features not available before the 5.0 release. These features include class support for VBScript, and Regular Expression searching through the use of a COM object. "Designing Active Server Pages" explains why using classes in VBScript is beneficial, and demonstrates the power of regular expression searching.
This book shows how to simplify the process by only requiring one ASP page to handle ALL of the Forms throughout a web site, thus reducing the amount of code one has to write.
Topics include:
Using various Microsoft and third-party components to enhance ASP pages
Creating components using VB and/or VC++
Sample code forperforming routine ASP tasks
Techniques to allow for reusable database scripts on the database system and on ASP pages
How to obtain and register third-party components, thus saving massive amounts of time by reusing someone else's code
"Designing Active Server Pages" is for developers who have already mastered the basics of ASP application development and are ready to take the next logical step. It is sure to become an indispensable part of every web developer's library.
Customer Reviews & Comments
As a web developer, I've been using ASP for a couple years and would consider myself and intermediate ASP programmer. I've built up a collection of books on the topic, mostly referring to WROX books for their reference quality. ASP isn't my primary function at my job, so I don't get to work daily on developing and using my skills. I've recently been looking to improve my ability in this area, and inject some new ideas into the way I accomplish things in code. This book was the perfect answer! If you're new to ASP or programming, you'll appreciate the emphasis on structure and conventions. If you're experienced with ASP, you'll appreciate the ideas presented here. I especially like the work on code reusability. This is definitely one of the best ASP books I've seen in a long time.
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