Professional Active Server Pages 3.0

by Alex Homer

• ISBN13: 9781861002617
• ISBN10: 1861002610
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Building on the success of the first edition, this book brings the subject area up to date with its coverage of ASP 3.0. This title continues deep coverage where many other books only scratch the surface.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
ASP Fundamentals	p. 9
The Origins of ASP	p. 10
How ASP Connects with IIS	p. 14
Set-up Issues and Management	p. 23
The ASP 3.0 Object Model In Overview	p. 32
What's New in ASP Version 3.0	p. 36
Summary	p. 45
Handling Requests and Responses	p. 47
Client and Server Interaction	p. 48
The ASP Request and Response Objects	p. 50
Working with Form and QueryString Collections	p. 55
Using Cookies in ASP	p. 71
Using the ServerVariables Collection	p. 74
Other Request and Response Techniques	p. 78
Summary	p. 91
ASP Applications and Sessions	p. 93
Managing State on the Web	p. 94
What is a Web Application?	p. 97
The ASP Application and Session Objects	p. 109
Summary	p. 127
Server Processes and the ASP Server Object	p. 129
Server-Side Processing in Dynamic Pages	p. 130
Server-Side Include (SSI) Directives	p. 131
The ASP Server Object	p. 143
Summary	p. 170
The Scripting Run-time Library Objects	p. 173
What are Scripting Objects?	p. 174
Creating Instances of Objects and Components	p. 175
The Scripting.Dictionary Object	p. 183
The Scripting.FileSystemObject Object	p. 191
The Scripting.TextStream Object	p. 208
Summary	p. 217
Active Server Components	p. 221
Scripting Objects vs. Server Components	p. 222
The ASP/IIS Installable Components	p. 224
Third Party Server Components	p. 263
Summary	p. 268
Debugging and Error Handling	p. 271
Different Kinds of Errors	p. 272
Different Kinds of Runtime Errors	p. 281
Preventing Errors	p. 289
Handling Errors	p. 294
Finding and Curing Errors - Debugging	p. 305
Summary	p. 311
ADO 2.5 Basics	p. 313
Why ADO?	p. 314
The ADO 2.5 Object Model	p. 318
Connecting to Data Stores	p. 324
Recordsets	p. 331
Managing Errors	p. 347
Summary	p. 350
Connections, Commands And Procedures	p. 353
The Connection Object	p. 354
The Command Object	p. 355
Optimization	p. 374
Data Shaping	p. 379
Summary	p. 386
ASP and Data on the Client	p. 389
Disconnected Recordsets	p. 390
Remote Data Services	p. 390
Data Transfer Between the Server and the Client	p. 416
Recordset Paging	p. 425
Using Images from a Database	p. 439
Summary	p. 440
Working with XML Data	p. 443
What is Extensible Markup Language?	p. 444
XML in ADO and IE5	p. 461
Styling XML with XSL	p. 478
Related Areas	p. 483
The XML Technology Preview for SQL Server	p. 484
Summary	p. 485
Universal Data Access	p. 487
The Dream of UDA	p. 487
OLE DB Providers	p. 488
Semi-Structured Data	p. 505
Enterprise Data	p. 521
ASP in the Enterprise	p. 525
Summary	p. 527
Components and Web Application Architecture	p. 529
Distributed Application Architecture	p. 530
Components	p. 538
Component Application Design	p. 544
An Application Design Case Study	p. 553
Summary	p. 563
COM, COM+ and ASP	p. 565
So What is COM, Apart from Love?	p. 566
Interfaces	p. 571
COM+ Runtime Changes	p. 583
Building an ASP COM Component	p. 584
Summary	p. 596
COM+ Applications	p. 599
Microsoft Component Services (COM+)	p. 600
Apartments and Threading Models	p. 612
COM+ Applications	p. 623
Component Services	p. 637
Component Debugging	p. 645
Summary	p. 647
ASP Script Components	p. 649
Getting Started with WSC	p. 650
A Windows Script Component	p. 650
The Structure of a WSC	p. 652
Available Interfaces	p. 658
Writing an ASP Script Component	p. 660
Why ASP Script Components?	p. 669
Summary	p. 670
Building ASP Components in C++	p. 673
The C++ Language	p. 674
Visual C++ Libraries	p. 677
Building Your First C++ Server Component	p. 682
Summary	p. 701
More C++ Component Issues	p. 703
Interfacing with ASP	p. 703
Interfacing with COM+	p. 711
Data Access	p. 716
Summary	p. 727
ASP and Transacted Web Applications	p. 729
What is Transaction Processing?	p. 730
Distributed Transactions	p. 733
Transactional COM+ Applications	p. 735
COM+ Transactions and IIS	p. 750
On-line Ordering with ASP and COM+	p. 754
Summary	p. 765
ASP and Message Queue Server	p. 767
What is Message Queuing?	p. 768
MSMQ Architecture	p. 773
Administering MSMQ	p. 777
The MSMQ Object Model	p. 783
MS DTC Transactions with MSMQ	p. 792
Advanced MSMQ Messages	p. 792
COM+ Queued Components	p. 795
Expanding the Online Ordering Example	p. 797
Summary	p. 802
Introducing ADSI and Active Directory	p. 805
So What's ADSI For	p. 806
What Software you Need	p. 807
Inside Active Directory	p. 808
Characteristics of Directories	p. 814
Common Directories	p. 815
Where Does ADSI Fit In?	p. 817
Where Does LDAP Fit In?	p. 818
Binding to our First ADSI Object	p. 819
Browsing a Directory: Enumerating Children of a Container	p. 822
Using Schema-Defined Properties	p. 826
Get and GetEx: MultiValued Properties	p. 829
The PropertyBrowseEx Sample	p. 830
Comparing Active Directory with the WinNT Provider	p. 832
The Property Cache	p. 834
Setting Values of Properties	p. 835
Authenticating to a Directory	p. 835
Searching	p. 838
Command Strings for Searching ADSI Directories	p. 841
Search Filters	p. 843
Summary	p. 844
ASP and Collaboration Data Objects for NT Server	p. 847
What is CDO?	p. 847
The CDONTS Library	p. 851
Setting Up SMPT Services	p. 873
Using CDONTS in ASP Applications	p. 878
SimpleMail Application	p. 878
Summary	p. 893
ASP, CDO and Exchange Server	p. 895
The CDO Library	p. 895
Mail Client Application	p. 923
Summary	p. 946
Securing Your Server	p. 949
What is Security?	p. 950
Securing Windows 2000	p. 954
Securing IIS 5.0	p. 966
SQL Server 7.0 and ODBC Security	p. 971
Creating Your Own Security With ASP	p. 974
Summary	p. 986
Working With Certificates	p. 989
Security, Identity and Authenticity	p. 990
Certificates and Certificate Authorities	p. 993
Getting a Certificate from a Certificate Authority	p. 996
Using Certificates	p. 1004
Managing Certificates	p. 1011
Certificates and ASP	p. 1015
Becoming your own Certificate Authority	p. 1017
Summary	p. 1021
Optimizing ASP Performance	p. 1023
Performance Metrics	p. 1024
Improving Server Hardware Performance	p. 1029
Performance Tuning	p. 1030
Miscellaneous Tips	p. 1053
Summary	p. 1057
Building Multiple Server Web Sites	p. 1059
Multiple Server Web Sites	p. 1059
Load Balancing Schemes	p. 1064
State Management	p. 1076
Security	p. 1079
Summary	p. 1080
An XML-Driven Newspaper Case Study	p. 1083
Anatomy of the Newspaper	p. 1084
The Brains - settings.xml	p. 1091
Putting it all together	p. 1123
Summary	p. 1126
The ASP 3.0 Object Model	p. 1129
The Scripting Run-Time Library Objects	p. 1139
Microsoft Server Components	p. 1151
Error Codes	p. 1159
The ADO 2.5 Object Model	p. 1181
ADO 2.5 Constants	p. 1197
Useful Information	p. 1223
P2P.WROX.COM	p. 1231
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