Visual Basic Developer's Guide to Asp and IIS

A. Russell Jones

ISBN 10: 0782125573 / ISBN 13: 9780782125573

Published by Sybex Inc, 1999

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Title: Visual Basic Developer's Guide to Asp and IIS

Publisher: Sybex Inc

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: paperback

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

The core components of Web application development for programmers using Microsoft technologies are ASP and IIS. With the new functionality in Visual Basic, developers can now write sophisticated server-side Web applications. Topics covered include: creating WebClasses; creating and using HTML templates; exploring WebClasses with the VB debugger; securing a Web site; handling errors; working with different browsers; caching data and caching objects; distributing applications over multiple servers; retrieving data from databases; maintaining state; using ADO; using ActiveX DLLs from WebClasses; writing Active Server Pages with VB; and using Microsoft Transaction Server with WebClasses.

Review:

Visual Basic Developer's Guide to ASP and IISA Russell Jones Sybex 1999

The Web is rapidly becoming the front-end of choice for applications. Why create a custom front-end that will only run on a single PC when you can deliver a Web-based interface to anywhere in the world? Microsoft's Internet Information Server is part of the Windows NT operating system and using its Active Server Pages technology you can create Web applications using server side scripts and COM objects.

Visual Basic is an evolving development environment and the Visual Basic Developer's Guide to ASP and IIS is designed for VB 6.0 developers who want to take advantage of its Web development features. You won't need to know HTML to use this book, as it contains a guide to ASP and HTML. The heart of the book is a look at VB 6.0's Web class features. Web classes are a way of building COM objects that are used to modify HTML templates. You'll learn how to use Web classes to query databases, handle security and work with client side scripts. If you're interested in using Microsoft's Transaction Server to improve Web application reliability and linking to external application, there's plenty of information to get you started.

This is a book for both the beginner and the hard-core VB developer. It's a welcome guide to an often-overlooked feature of Visual Basic, with plenty of source code and examples: There's enough information here to use the Visual Basic Developer's Guide to ASP and IIS as both a tutorial and a reference. --Simon Bisson