Rating: 
Summary: Good Overivew - A Little "Lite" on Content
Review: Scott Mitchell does a good job of articulating the theory and benefits of designing effective, reusable ASP code. Unfortunately, in the end the book lacks sufficient breadth and depth in many topic areas.
Upon purchasing this book my expectations were somewhat low (how much information can you pack in a 300 page book?) considering the extensive topic. Although the book is a good overview, I suspect most developers would rather spent their time actually designing reusable components rather than reading about why they should design reuseable components.
In the end, I would say the book is worth the read but level your exepctations.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Book
Review: Scott Mitchell is an excellent author. I love his articeles on 4GuysFromRolla.com. I am freelance internet consultant and have used most of the examples in this book in one form or another.Highly recommended for up and coming "Advanced" ASP developers.
Rating: 
Summary: Not exactly what I thought it was but...
Review: The book by itself really is no way to begin learning ASP. There are a few other books out there designed for this but this book shows you how to make you ASP more compact and easier to debug. Before reading this book I had the same code repeated in different pages throughout my site. By reading this book I was able to create reusable pages and greatly reduce the complexity that I unknowingly introduced into my pages. The book's title says it all, "Designing Active Server Pages" and is worth a buy if would like to clean up some of the code in your scripts and is not a bad reference.
Rating: 
Summary: Not useful / applicable
Review: The problem: the meat of the book is used describing two "reuse" apps; 1 for forms and 1 for DB admin. The problem is that these really aren't very good ways of doign either. In fact it's not really a good design to try and "objectify" either of these two concepts. And the thing is at the end of each chapter the author even says so. Spend your money elsewhere, buy a subscription to Wrox's ASPToday site. It is awesome.
Rating:
Summary: well written advanced book
Review: theres very few ASP books written that go beyond teaching you WHAT things do. this book, meant for intermediate to advanced users, delves into the WHY and HOW to do things. It teaches you how create your applications correctly, focusing on creating modular, reusable code. highly recommended.
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Summary: Finally!
Review: This book is an ASP developers dream. First off, if you have intermediary ASP skills, this will push you over the top. If you are quite advanced, this book is an important read to remind you of the importance of well written, reusable code. Thank you very much, rolla man! davidj.org
Rating:
Summary: once you know the basics, get this book
Review: This book is basically about ASP programming techniques.
Most ASP books out there teach you the basics of ASP, or
working with something specific in ASP. Once you know how
to program ASP, this book will teach you how to be a GOOD
ASP programmer. Read the Wrox books on ASP, then once you
can write code, read this book. I found the chapter on Windows Script Components particularly
helpful.
Rating:
Summary: once you know the basics, get this book
Review: This book is basically about ASP programming techniques.
Most ASP books out there teach you the basics of ASP, or
working with something specific in ASP. Once you know how
to program ASP, this book will teach you how to be a GOOD
ASP programmer. Read the Wrox books on ASP, then once you
can write code, read this book. I found the chapter on Windows Script Components particularly
helpful.
Rating:
Summary: Designing Active Server Pages
Review: This book is certainly not for someone just beginning to learn how to design ASP for the web. It may be more useful as a reference, but even then I somewhat question it. Usually the O'Reilly books are quite good but this seems to be the exception to the rule. When a book about ASP design starts off on page 3 with a section entitled "What's Wrong with ASP Design?" you know you are in trouble! The next 2 sections titled "Why Hasn't ASP Design Advanced?" and "What Can Be Done to Improve ASP Design?" (which is 12 pages in length!!) don't give you that warm, fuzzy feeling either! If the book is designed to scare you off of ASP design it may succeed! It seems to skip the basics and dives right into many somewhat obscure things. Altogether, this is most definitely NOT a book for someone starting out in ASP!
Rating:
Summary: Well-written, good design advice, solid coding standards
Review: This is a terrific little book. Don't expect to learn ASP from the ground up: Mitchell jumps right into the code, without wasting hundreds of pages on basics the way so many other ASP books do. Once you're familiar with the ASP world, this book is a great guide to solid coding standards. Think project design: setting up error handling, form validation, #INCLUDEs, and so on. I had already learned most of it the hard way, but it was still a pleasure to see all those things laid out so clearly. Then Mitchell takes you on a detailed excursion into his reusable database administration pages. Clear exposition of design goals, modular design with classes, walking through unit testing: It was like a thorough, well-written code review. I had some minor quibbles with the code (mostly regarding embedding HTML tags in places I wouldn't have done). And certain aspects of the design aren't practical on large systems. But it still stands as an excellent little project and documentation example.
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