The book "Programming Active Server Pages" by Scot Hillier and Daniel Mezick is more interested in promoting Microsoft products then writing about Active Server pages. Chapter five is the first chapter that the deals with Active Server pages, the first four are about client side technologies like: Internet Explorer 4.0, DHTML, Active X controls, and client side scripting. Of the chapters in the book that deal with Active Server page programming chapter five talks about component objects that come with the Internet Information Server, and chapter six through nine show an examples sites. The final chapter, ten, deals with Active Server pages and the transaction server.
The three decent example sites and the final chapter about the transaction server are the heart of the book. However there is nothing in this book that you can get for free online.
This 15 Seconds' issue contains source code and step by step instructions for creating a chat session using Active Server pages, HTML and a standard web browser. Also demonstrated is writing and reading of a file with an Active Server page. [Read This Article][Top]
