Active Server Pages For Dummies - Softcover

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9780764501906: Active Server Pages For Dummies

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ISBN 10: 0764501909 ISBN 13: 9780764501906

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

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Active Server Pages (ASP) technology is now of importance to Web masters, IT professionals and programmers who are familiar with HTML and languages such as Visual Basic, JavaScript, Perl and C++. The open development environment provided by Active Server Pages gives developers the flexibility to combine HTML, scripts and ActiveX server components to create Web-based applications. With ASP, developers can create Web pages that allow site visitors to view personalized and regularly updated informtion. In this guide, readers will find complete information on using ASP's open application environment - incorporating scripting languages and using ActiveX server components that can be written in anything from COBOL to Visual Basic to Java. The book includes information on how to incorporate database files into an ASP application. Readers will find out how to use ASP for business solutions, such as extending sales and customer service to the Web and providing access to corporate databases to any browser on an intranet. There is also a section on how to use Web tools in conjunction with ASP. The enclosed CD includes sample scripts, ActiveX server components and sample Active Server Pages. Databases, images and other files that can be tied together with ASP technology are also included.

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Review

Active Server Pages (ASP) are the best way to create dynamic Web sites--that is, Web sites based on the contents of a database--under Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) and other Microsoft Web platforms. Active Server Pages for Dummies proves that despite the initially intimidating appearance of some ASP code, the system isn't hard to learn and can be a lot of fun.

The book delivers a carefully structured introduction to ASP technology. The examples aren't all academic, either--you'll find code (printed and on the companion CD-ROM) for a date-stamper, a banner-ad rotator, a guest book, and even a near-real-time chat room and a system for managing classified ads.

Though this book includes sections on VBScript and JScript, you'll probably want to combine it with a language text if you are unfamiliar with at least one of those languages. Still, the language material that's here serves as a good introduction to the basics and enables you to make sense of the scriptable ASP objects which make the technology so powerful.

Though this isn't an object reference, the author explains the capabilities of each major server component and provides example code that uses many of them. That's the strongest aspect of this book in fact--the excellent example code you can learn from and adapt to your purposes. --David Wall, Amazon.com

Topics covered: Basics of ASP, VBScript, JScript, the ASP object model, server components, database connectivity, Visual InterDev and popular ASP applications.

From the Back Cover

CD–ROM gives you ASP samples, software, and more

Now covers the latest ASP features

Harness the power and flexibility of ASP to customize your Web content If you want dynamic Web pages that create personalized content for visitors or automatically pull updates from a database, then ASP is for you. This friendly guide shows you step–by–step how to build powerful Active Server Pages applications that will take your Web site to the next level. all this on the bonus CD–ROM Trial versions of Chili!Soft ASP and Chili! Reports Enterprise Edition Sample ASP pages Sample databases, scripts, images, and other files from the book For details and system requirements, see the CD–ROM appendix Plus leading Internet software

Discover how to: Understand the ASP open development environment Customize and personalize Web pages Access database information Write scripts in VBScript or JavaScript Work with ActiveX components

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