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ASP.NET Index - ASP.NET Book :
Active Server Pages 3.0: Your visual blueprint for developing interactive Web sites
Active Server Pages 3.0: Your visual blueprint for developing interactive Web sitesby Paul Whitehead, Ruth MaranPaperback: 350 pages Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc ISBN: 0764534726; Bk&Cd-Rom edition (July 1, 2000) Plenty of books have been published on ASP, but many lack the technical depth to teach you how to build a complete ASP-driven site. Look no further, because Active Server Pages 3.0: Your Visual Blueprint for Developing Interactive Web Sites delivers a visual, step-by-step approach to building dynamic Web applications by using ASP. This book is a sort of toolbox, and sports a simple format that guides the reader through straightforward examples. Instructions and demonstrations are given for over 100 core tasks, each of which is broken down into two-page lessons, with accompanying screen shots that illustrate them visually. Along the way, you'll learn how to work with cookies, query strings, database connections, and custom error messages. The Apply It section takes you one step further than the core lesson by illustrating fine touches, such as delivering user-friendly error messages. The Extra section gives examples of important shortcuts, tips, and tricks, such as how to abort the execution of a For...Next loop. Both of these elements include ready-to-run code. A Reference section includes more commonly used VBScript and ASP statements for easy access. As a bonus, the companion CD-ROM includes all of the sample code from each of the two-page lessons, shareware versions of additional programs that you can use (like ASP Express), and an e-version of the book. This is an indispensable and valuable guide for novice ASP programmers. --Stephen W. Plain Topics covered in Active Server Pages 3.0: • Personal Web Server (PWS) • VBScript • Variables • Statement syntax • Control structures • Functions and subroutines • Cookies • URL encoding • Web applications • Database connectivity • Components • Error handling Book Description: visual blueprint is the only guidebook series that takes a VISUAL approach to professional-level computer topics. Inside you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 100 key Active Server Pages tasks, including: • Processing data from a form • Creating a cookie • Using query strings • Encoding a URL • Creating a custom component • Locking application variables • Using a Window script component • Connecting to a database • Creating a custom error message • Using the File Access component From the Publisher: visual blueprint offers you: • "Apply It" and "Extra" provide ready-to-run code and useful tips • Succinct explanations walk you through step-by-step • High-resolution screen shots demonstrating each task • Two-page lessons breaking topics into bite-sized modules CD-ROM includes: • all sample code • Shareware versions of WEB-ED Page and Scripting Editor and ASP Express • Evaluation versions of Edit 2000 and Visual InterDev 6 • PLUS an e-version of the book! Customer Reviews A True Beginners Book, Almost Elementary. Good, February 22, 2001 Reviewer: gsalas from Milwaukee, WI United States I read the whole book in just over 2 hours, and that may be because I've already used ASP on IIS4 (ASP 2.0), but mostly because it covers way to many subjects that even though "related" to ASP should not make part of a book with this title. The author (the author is a family business as a group) should have included... an introduction, yes, a pointer to other sources, well ok, but not a whole 1/3 of a book! I was shocked by the layout because it made me feel like a was back in middle school. Pages with "blue print" graphics in the corners and TWO screenshots per page in EVERY page! This was a little bit too much. I give it 4 starts because I think that regardless of how useful or not the book was for me, it would make a great intro book to someone who has done NO programming before, and wants to pick up ASP. You'll learn, yes you certainly will, this I guarantee. And because of that it is a GREAT value! You will not only learn about ASP but also about IIS, VBScript, SQL and DSN, all at a intro level, but done amazingly well, simple yet not superficial. Of course ADO and some old and new Components are introduced in a manner that is brief yet elegantly and clearly explained. If you are looking for more "undocumented" information and/or new features of ASP 3.0 and its applications, please look elsewhere. This book was very hard to "judge" since it is a great book from the beginners point of view and for such purpose the layout is perhaps appropriate, but it is deceiving as an ASP 3.0 book for which you must not fall if you've done ANY ASP in the past, even if it was a one pager! For beginners/ right brainers this is THE book for ASP, November 27, 2000 Reviewer: A reader from Bremerton, WA United States I have looked at many how-to developer books on ASP, Javascript, VB, etc.. and for those of us artists, right-brainers, beginners; those of us who didn't gravitate to writing BASIC in 4th or 5th grade, IDG's Visual series is THE series. Maran Graphics out if Toronto (I think) did a tremendous job putting together a consistent, highly VISUAL step-by-step layout that doesn't compromise content for 'cute-sie'. I just returned a 2-book set (something like ASP and Visual Interdev in 24 hours. It was one of the ". . .in 24 hours" books. DON'T LET IT'S POPULARITY FOOL YOU. IT WAS THE WORST BOOK OF ITS KIND THAT I'VE BOUGHT IN YEARS. Yes, maybe for the naturals who don't need screen shots to 'get it', this series won't work, but for the rest of us, IDG's Visuals are the only way to go. A good book, but too elementary, January 8, 2002 Reviewer: Jeffrey from South West Florida, USA I bought this book hoping to learn the basics of ASP. Well, I sure did learn the basics! I already have experince with HTML, java, cgi, perl, and visual basic. So I already know the basics of programing. The way this book is divided up, is by ASP subjects, and really did not show how to integrate them into a finished web project that really had a use. Unfortently, I may still have to buy another ASP book to fully understand ASP. I would recomend this book to anyone who does not have ANY programing experience at all. But too elementary for myself. Really not a good book., November 26, 2001 Reviewer: A reader from Auckland New Zealand This book is very flawed. It is more likely to confuse a beginner than enlighten them. The first major flaw: No real 'big picture' of the topic is offered. The book consists of small superficial sections, one devoted to each element of ASP. The problem is that each element is not satisfactorally placed in a context. But worst of all is the books 'visual' approach, supposedly helpful. Why on earth would a reader need to be told to press tab to indent a piece of text, each and every time it is required? This overkill of step by step visual explanation becomes absurd. Check it out before you buy it. |
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