Beginning Components for ASP

By Simon Robinson, Richard Anderson, Richard Anderson

ASP components are the next stage for the maturing ASP programmer. They reflect a need for bespoke and fine control over site activity. For example, when a basic ASP site wishes to have some sort of transactional ability, where a database will ultimately be referred to or some business rule checked against, then a custom component will do the job. This component could be written in VB, VC or Java and is hermetic and maintainable.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861002882
• ISBN13: 9781861002884
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 2.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Superb OLE DB using ATL coverage.

This book has by far the only decent coverage of OLE DB using ATL in a book that is currently on sale.and it is good on covering C++ ASP related code.

"Must Have" for serious ASP programmers or students

This book bridges the gap between VB books and classes (which I have taken) and other ASP resources. I really like this book - it covers all the basics (I filled in many gaps in my knowledge and cleared up several misconceptions - such as what is the difference between COM objects and Active-X components), and methodically covers all the aspects of basic component writing. Another thing I really appreciate that the authors have done is that they are very up-front and frank about what the book does NOT cover and why. Topics such as Active-X controls, which could be considered components but really have nothing to do with the theme of the book, are explained briefly and then dismissed.This book, along with the Wrox "Professional Active Server Pages" should be on the desk of any serious ASP student or programmer.The copy I received has about 4 pages mis-printed such that they are very faint, but I managed to decipher them and could never bring myself to send the book back in to get a replacement.

A great book for Web/ASP developers

The perfect book for learning or enhancing your ASP component programming skills. It thoroughly covers ASP component building in VB and C++. I particularly found the in-depth sections on scalability, resource management and transactions (MTS) to be very helpful.This book is actually one you will want to read from cover to cover.

This is the defacto book on ASP components is redefined!

I'm really pleased to have found a book that gives so many practical examples of creating ASP components in VB. This books covers all the the technologies like XML and MTS that ASP developers should know about, and it does it well. I've read other ASP component books from other publishers (such as Developing ASP component by Shelley Powers) but none have given so many examples, or been as technically deep and clear. With this book I've got a good handle on how to write my ASP components, which I just haven't got from other books.Great book, thanks guys.