Web Programming with ASP and COM

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Summary: Execellent book for beginners on ASP and COM
Review: I'd like to thank the author for writing such
a brilliant book. Everything I wanted to know
as a beginner is there.

Rating:
Summary: Must buy for newbies
Review: If you want a basic introduction to ASP, ATL, COM, MTS and ADO and how to put them together then this is the book for you.

When learning how to create an n-tier web application we must all start somewhere - and I would recommend you start here. Once you have experimented with the examples in this book then move onto the more focused books (ASP 3.0, Mastering COM and COM+, ATL Internals, etc).

The accompanying CD is ok, but does contain a mistake or two (which you will have to work out) and doesn't always exactly match the code shown in the book - but this should not cause you any problems if you have understood the written text.

As this is a basic introduction there are a number of topics it does not cover - OLEDB, threading for example.

For me though, this has been the clearest introduction to web programming for c++.

Rating:
Summary: Would have saved me a lot of frustration!
Review: This book freaking rocks! I only wish I had found it back when I was learning ASP. It addresses all of the ASP issues that had me frustrated when developing an interactive site that is based around a database. I'm not finnished with this book yet but I have to give it a thumbs up now because of all that I have gotten from it so far.

This is a must buy if you are starting out or somewhat experienced with ASP, the COM information is a definate bonus as well. The examples are real-world and you will find the general information that Crouch gives on programming for the web invaluable.