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Title: Using Isapi by Stephen Genusa, Bobby, Jr Addison, Allen Clark, Dean Cleaver, Kevin Flick, Thomas Leroux, Martin J. Norman, Tom Parkinson, Paul P., Jr Parrone, Michael Regelski ISBN: 0-7897-0913-9 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Overpriced Shovelware
Comment: Read the Microsoft documentation instead. This book is a thinly disguised rip-off of the Microsoft documentation padded with examples of dubious value. In 590 pages this book manages to add no value or information beyond the original documentation. That's quite an achievement.
Rating: 4
Summary: If you like pain, ISAPI is for you
Comment: If you want to learn ISAPI...think again. This was "hot" 2 years ago...now it is all but dead.
ISAPI's big promise was better performance and memory usage...ironic that it has now fallen in favor to the biggest performance pig of all web applications...ASP. In an age of fast machines and small web apps, rapid development and ease of use wins out over performance.
ISAPI is hard to learn, harder to get right, unstable, bug ridden (if written in MFC) and surprisingly inflexible.
Look, you're a smart person. You want to do the right thing. You don't need to subject yourself to the torture of learning ISAPI. Only hard-core programmers who are tasked with writing a custom web app that is going to get some VERY heavy traffic should even bother with ISAPI.
So why did I give this book 4 stars? There are no good ISAPI books out there. This one has the most information in it and will allow you the best chance to actually develop something that works. Get this book and hit Genusa's (now dusty) ISAPI site. Also spend a lot of time in the Microsoft knowledge base...there are plenty of workarounds and bugs to learn about too.
Keep in mind that with ISAPI you had better be a damn good programmer. If your DLL ever crashes...bye bye web server. This is harder than you think if you are doing "serious" web programming which includes database access.
Smart managers will not allow mission-critical web apps to be developed in ISAPI by a web punk who has never done this before. Do everyone a favor and get a clue. There is a reason why nobody is doing this stuff anymore!
Game over. Go home and don't look back. Go off and learn ASP and Cold Fusion like a good little web programmer. You will have a marketable skill and will actually get things done.
Rating: 4
Summary: Best of the available ISAPI books, has reasonable examples
Comment: ISAPI is Microsoft's approach to adding capabilities to web serving. There are only a few books that describe how to use ISAPI. This book is the best of them, because the author: 1) provides examples in both C and C++, and 2) compares ISAPI with CGI solutions. Unfortunately, ISAPI is a complicated subject, so more and shorter examples would help elucidate the reader.
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Title: Inside ISAPI by Jeffrey Trent, Chris Wuestefeld, Jeffrey Trent, Jim Clemens ISBN: 1562056506 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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