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Summary: Hard to Beat for the price
Review: After reading the other reviews on this book. I have to agree with some of what they are saying. This book is not up to the standards of the other ASP books by Wrox but I think it hits the mark on a lot of things. First and formost it is a reference book and it does an ok job at that. I found many of the examples useful but not nearly as thorough as Professional Active Server Pages 2.0 I wish it would have gone a little further in its discussion of handling oracle back end work. I think the whole world thinks that SQL Server 6.5 is what is used and that is just not the case. Oracle is a much more prevelant database for use with ASP than SQL Server 6.5
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Summary: Very Helpful
Review: I found the book very helpful. The examples are quick and to the point and I found them much more useful in my day-to-day work then the more convoluted "application" examples given in many of the other ASP books. This is not to say ASP 2.0 Prog. Ref. replaces those books only that the book does succeed as a great reference guide.I did not find the chapter format to be a problem as items seem to fall into the chapters rather logically. I find myself using the book more and more and think it is well worth the money.
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Summary: Missing Survey of VBScript
Review: I usually really like Wrox books; along with O'Reilly I find that they are concise, timely, and accurate with their information. I bought this slim reference hoping to rid my desk my regular ASP book and clear up some needed real estate. Unfortunately, this book won't be replacing Professional ASP anytime soon. I know ASP VERY well, but I need syntax refreshers occasionally. This book will help with that for the most part, but it doesn't include a VBScript or JScript appendix. I know Wrox has other books for these topics, but an ASP programmer needs coverage of the scripting languages along with the ASP object model. Inclusion of a quick chapter would have made this book a four or 5 star for me. As is, maybe I can trade the book with one of my coworkers. :(
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Summary: Jump Starts Your Web Development Skills
Review: I wasn't expecting too much from this book when I bought it because it's suppose to be a programmers reference anyway. My problem is: instead of confusing new ASP programmers on database access, it's better to leave the topic to a better author, or say explicitly that samples will not work. I'm looking for a better book anyway! Please email me if you have any better suggestions.
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Summary: It's a reference - with some decent background info.
Review: I've read Beginning ASP 2.0 and Professional ASP 2.0 . . . and I found this book a good quick review on those subjects I'm rusty on. It's nice to have the information available in a smaller book that I can carry with me from job to job (the appendix is thorough and well organized). This is not a practical "first book" if you are serious about learning how to code ASP. If you're a manager and want some background the first few chapters are targeted for you. If you're a programmer, you won't develop any serious applications with this book as your guide. But, if you forgot how to deal with cookies or can't remember the exact syntax for sending mail with CDONTS - then buy this books. It's portable. The brief chapter on ASP 3.0 is a nice introduction to the next release of ASP. (I just got the ASP 3.0 programmer's reference). Good luck!
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Summary: It's a reference - with some decent background info.
Review: I've read Beginning ASP 2.0 and Professional ASP 2.0 . . . and I found this book a good quick review on those subjects I'm rusty on. It's nice to have the information available in a smaller book that I can carry with me from job to job (the appendix is thorough and well organized). This is not a practical "first book" if you are serious about learning how to code ASP. If you're a manager and want some background the first few chapters are targeted for you. If you're a programmer, you won't develop any serious applications with this book as your guide. But, if you forgot how to deal with cookies or can't remember the exact syntax for sending mail with CDONTS - then buy this books. It's portable. The brief chapter on ASP 3.0 is a nice introduction to the next release of ASP. (I just got the ASP 3.0 programmer's reference). Good luck!
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Summary: Good reference!
Review: The concepts introduced in this book are very clear and easy to understand. The performance chapter needs more reference
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Summary: Jump Starts Your Web Development Skills
Review: This book did me good. As an independent consultant, I have to constantly retrain at my own expense. In a few nights, I read 200 pages and was building small ASP database applications. It is worth a lot more than I paid for it. ASP 2.0 is very organized. It covers the basics from setting up the ASP environment to how to organize a good ASP application. While advertised as a programmer's reference, it has a lot more than just lists of objects and methods. It was enough to bridge me from C++ gunslinger to ASP pea-shooter. I found it thorough to an appropriate level, fast to read, and with a focus on performance. It does expect you to pick up VBScript yourself, but there are enough code snippets that I managed without having ever used VB more than a day. They can't cover every detail in a book of this brevity and I'm glad they didn't. If they did, I'd still be reading and not writing code.
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Summary: Asp quick reference
Review: This book gave me a clear view and understanding of how asp hangs together. It is very important to understand the architecture of how a web site is put together and this book explains exactly that. This book has definately made me a better asp programmer. (I'm just about to order Professional ASP 2.0)
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Summary: You won't learn more than 1 hour reading
Review: This book is clear and straightforward. Unfortunately, you won't learn much from it, for the examples are very simple and it never goes very deep inside programming. This definitely is a book for managers who want to get the feeling about a technology without having to write any code.
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