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Summary: Good News to ASP developers
Review: This book provides comprehensive solutions about ASP component development. The author first gives a brief introduction about COM technology, threads and general component programming issues. The reason I like this book is the author provides ASP component building in 3 languages, Visual C++, Visual Basic and Visual J++. It provides very details of programming techniques, with Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) support. I recommend this book to all ASP programmers who are planning to build components. It is just an excellent book!
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Summary: Comprehensive coverage of COM/MTS/ASP using C++,VB, and Java
Review: This book was a long time coming, primarily because I started writing it just when Microsoft started releasing all new versions of the products involved. This included IIS, MTS, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Visual J++.The book begins with a section on basic material all ASP components developers should know, such as overviews of COM, MTS, threads, and the ASP built-in objects. The book then proceeds into creating components using three different languages/tools: Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Visual J++. Each language section contains a chapter about writing ASP components in the specific language, the things to watch out for, the little language specific quirks. This is followed by a chapter on accessing the MTS and ASP built-in objects from components written in the language. Following the ASP built-in object chapter is a chapter demonstrating data access using ADO, OLE DB, and WFC. Each language section then ends with a chapter demonstrating other aspects of ASP components developed in the specific language, such as multi-tier applications in VB, persistence and file access for VC++, and J/Direct for Visual J++. To add to the book's value, I have also created a suppport Web site for the book containing downloadable source code, as well as bonus articles, tutorials, and examples. You can find this by accessing the domain listed with my email, and looking for the book cover. Let me know how you do with the book. Please feel free to send me any questions or comments. I love to hear from readers.
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Summary: Good Book For Learning about ASP COmponents
Review: This is a good book for beginners wanting to know how to write ASP components with VB. IT also has sections on C++ and JAva which I did not even look at...But the theroy is solid behind it. Good book on components that are hard to find
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Summary: Good Book, but..
Review: This is a good book on ASP components and gives a good introduction. It covers developing ASP components with VB,java and VC++. Only thing is lot of information(like if you mainly use VB, you won't be reading the stuff on VC,Java) may not be required and you can get lot of similar information from other COM books(like Distributed components - Ted Pattison).So maybe you won't want to buy a book on just ASP components and rather spend the money buying a book that covers COM in more detail.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is a powerful book, containing useful information regarding the implementation and use of COM servers in an ASP context, as well as MTS configuration, intrinsic VB Object Interfaces (accessing standard ASP objects Application, Session, etc. from VB code), threading models, IIS and much more. I highly recommend this book to advance your knowledge of how to blend the power of ASPs with VB COM development. Note: While the editing for this book is excellent, there is one bad mistake. On page 188, replace the line: Set MyObject = Server.CreateObject("cntxt.test") with the following two lines: Set MyObject = Server.CreateObject("tstobjcntx.tstcntxt") MyObject.objResponseMethod()
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Summary: Indispensable Intro to ASP Components
Review: Well written, succinct and the subject material is brilliantly covered. This book is not only an excellent primer on the subject of ASP Components, its also a model on how ALL computer Self-Teach books should be written. It has no extraneous fluff that comes with 99% of computer books on the bookshop shelves. It has just the right balance of theory and code. And the theory is a pleasure to read, and the examples are great. Hats off to O'Reilly for producing this extremely timely book. And to Shelley Powers for really coming up with the goods with this book. Excellent!!!
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Summary: This book is simply MUST BUY !!!
Review: Working in ASP technology for 3 years (since before ASP has been publically available) I've read or skimmed probably every book that has to do with ASP Development. This book is just GREAT. A book on Component Building has been much needed and THIS one is a bullseye. I especially like the fact that examples are in VB, Java, and C++. There's also a great discussion of the Metabase and the Admin objects. If you wanna go beyond novice - get this book !!!!
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