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Title: Active Server® Pages Bible by Eric A. Smith ISBN: 0-7645-4599-X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.79 (24 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: think before you buy it
Comment: As a professional web programmer, I can honestly tell you that this is not a good programming/reference book. The coding in the books works perfectly, but this book didn't give you much idea about connecting the database, (I need to do some researching through the internet) or sending e-mail using asp...
If you are serious about ASP, you should try WROX books
Rating: 5
Summary: Great ASP Guide
Comment: First, let me say that after reading the other reviews listed here I found myself questioning the skill sets of the other reviewers....
This book is very good at what it is attempting to cover - ASP. The book is not entitled "The ADO Bible" or "The SQL Bible". The biggest complaint I often hear about this book is that its coverage of ADO and/or SQL Server is very incomplete. That may be true, but the main topic of the book is not ADO or SQL, it's Active Server Pages and that topic is covered quite completely and accurately.
One reviewer compains in his review that the author (Eric Smith) continuously sets up database connections using the ConnectionString property of a connection object (provider=.....) instead of establishing the DSN as a constant value (DSN=...). Perhaps that reviewer hasn't heard that using OLE DB Providers rather than DSN's is more efficient and gives the developer more control over the resulting connection. The author continuosly does it this way because that's the preferred way of doing it. If the reviewer had read chapter 10, he would have known that. I can't help taking someone's review with a grain of salt when other statements that they make clearly indicate that the reveiwer doesn't know what he/she is talking about!
The ASP object model is covered in great detail with WORKING code examples. The flow of topics through the chapters makes good logical sense (HTML,VBScript, ASP, DB Connectivity, etc.). The material is explained in plain terms (when possible) and insight into the networking aspects of ASP are covered as well. The appendicies are extensive and accuate and include a VERY useful comparison of ASP 2.0 and 3.0.
Rating: 1
Summary: Code Impossible
Comment: The code in this book is impossible to follow and does not work. This book is great if you like confusion and frustration.
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Title: Instant ASP Scripts by Greg Buczek, Greg Buzcek ISBN: 0072127309 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 22 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: ASP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition by A. Keyton Weissinger ISBN: 1565928431 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days by Scott Mitchell, James Atkinson ISBN: 0672318636 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 09 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Designing Active Server Pages by Scott Mitchell ISBN: 0596000448 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 18 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Professional Active Server Pages 3.0 by Alex Homer ISBN: 1861002610 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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