Unlocking Active Server Pages is the third book out on Active Server pages and debatably one of the best. The thoughts and ideas represented in the book are mature and reflect an insight from the author about where Active Server pages have come and where they are going.
One of the best things about this book are the examples. The majority of the examples are short and sweet, you learn about a topic and the author presents you with an example. However as the book nears completion there are three examples that take a chapter each. Each example is well thought out and very relevant to reality. The three chapter size examples are a Guest Book, a Shopping Basket, and a Search Wizard
The two chapters that make this book stand out our “Configuring Active Servers” and “Designing Active Server” pages. These two chapters give the mature insight to the book that makes third place a real winner. This book with its wonderful examples and insight make it a must read for programmers of IIS.
This 15 Seconds' issue contains source code and step by step instructions for creating a chat session using Active Server pages, HTML and a standard web browser. Also demonstrated is writing and reading of a file with an Active Server page. [Read This Article][Top]
This issue describes how to make a list server using Active Server, SQL Server, and Stephen Genusa's ASPMail Component. Included are source and instructions for adding the user to the list from a Active Server page, removing the user from the list via a Active Server page, and sending mail to the whole list. [Read This Article][Top]
A rewrite of part one of a four-part series on Active Server objects. A simple example of creating a Active Server Component in Visual Studio 5.0 using the Active Template Library 2.0. The example component retrieves the user's cookie, if not available issues a new 128-bit cookie. Included in the issue is the source code and step by step instructions. This issue has been rewritten to illustrate the use of Visual Studio 5.0 and ATL 2.0 in writing Active Server Components. [Read This Article][Top]
In this issue 15 Seconds implements a catalog site that is build with Active Server pages and SQL Server. Along with the implementation there is source code and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of creating a catalog site that gets its content from a database. Included are pages for displaying products, creating a menu page, category page, and running a search across a database. [Read This Article][Top]
A complete discussion of the Last Modified header and the Expires header including the effect they have on Active Server page and various browsers. [Read This Article][Top]
