By Gross, Homer, Enfield, Gross, Harrison, Francis, Jakab, Gill, Hartwell
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Professional Active Server Pages is the second book out on Active Server page, following Michael Corning’s Working with Active Server Pages. Though not as detail oriented as Michael’s book ,Professional Active Server page give multiple real-life examples of Active Server at work. The book leaves the impression that the authors work with ASP everyday and this book contains their best tricks. Many of the examples are work-around code that accomplishes real programming problems.
For example, Chapter 13 deals with the problem of integrating Index Server into an Active Server page environment. There is no simple way to accomplish the task, but the authors offer solutions that not only accomplish the task but also go outside the bounds of Active Server. This chapter was so good that Microsoft Interactive Developer chose to reprint it in June 1997 issues.
The authors also have a firm grasp on COM and the ability to extend Internet Information Server 3.0 by creating Active Server components using COM. This extensibility viewpoint is an underlying pattern though out the book and confirms the impression that the authors have a mature understanding of their subject. Chapter 10 discusses creating Active Server components with Visual Basic 5.0.
Note: Professional Active Server Pages was first categorized as Instant Active Server Pages. Instant Active Server Pages is the title available at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. However the ISBN are the same and the book is printed with the title Professional Active Server Pages.
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]
This issue describes how to make a list server using Active Server, SQL Server, and Stephen Genusa's ASPMail Component. Included are source and instructions for adding the user to the list from a Active Server page, removing the user from the list via a Active Server page, and sending mail to the whole list. [Read This Article][Top]
A rewrite of part one of a four-part series on Active Server objects. A simple example of creating a Active Server Component in Visual Studio 5.0 using the Active Template Library 2.0. The example component retrieves the user's cookie, if not available issues a new 128-bit cookie. Included in the issue is the source code and step by step instructions. This issue has been rewritten to illustrate the use of Visual Studio 5.0 and ATL 2.0 in writing Active Server Components. [Read This Article][Top]
In this issue 15 Seconds implements a catalog site that is build with Active Server pages and SQL Server. Along with the implementation there is source code and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of creating a catalog site that gets its content from a database. Included are pages for displaying products, creating a menu page, category page, and running a search across a database. [Read This Article][Top]
A complete discussion of the Last Modified header and the Expires header including the effect they have on Active Server page and various browsers. [Read This Article][Top]
