Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 24 Hours

by Wille, Christoph; Kollier, Christian

• ISBN13: 9780672316128
• ISBN10: 0672316129
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-14
• Publisher: Sams Publishing

Summary

Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 24 Hours is a step-by-step tutorial that teaches you how to create dynamic, fully functioning Web applications using Active Server Pages. Detailed coverage is provided for both Microsoft Personal Web Server and Microsoft Internet Information Server. Shows how to make sure your Web server is up and running correctly as well as how to build basic ASP applications. In addition to coverage of the basics of data access, you'll learn to send data, retrieve information, manage user sessions, use components, and work with files. Advanced topics include debugging ASP applications, building components, designing effective sites, adding security, and tuning ASP applications.

Author Biography

Christoph Wille, a Microsoft MVP for ASP, is a programmer at Softwing Hahn KEG. He has developed a number of Web sites with advanced features such as ASP and integrated e-commerce. Christoph has also worked as a consultant connecting private networks to the Internet and creating an Internet presence for a number of companies. As an MCSE and MCSD he has an extensive background working with COM, MFC, Microsoft SQL Server, the Microsoft operating systems, and other technologies that can be integrated with ASP. Christian Koller, a partner with Softwing Software, specializes in ASP database programming and in server-side programming using JavaScript. He is the developer of several dynamic Web sites using Active Server Pages and SQL Server.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I ASP Fundamentals

Creating Your First Page

Introducing Internet Information Server

Working with ASP

Part II Interacting with the USER

Sending Data to the User

Retrieving Information from the User

Managing User Sessions and Applications

Persisting Information About the User

Advanced Use of Intrinsic ASP Objects

Part III Extending The Reach of ASP With Components on IIS

Working with Components

Using IIS's Installable Components

Sending and Receiving Email

Working with Files

Part IV Data-Driven ASP Pages

Data Access Basics

Retrieving Data from a Database

Inserting Data Into a Table

Modifying Table Data

Paging Through Recordsets

Using Stored Procedures

Part V Advanced ASP

Debugging ASP Applications

Using XML

Programming Windows Script Components

Securing Your ASP Applications

Tuning Your ASP Applications

Foundations for a Web Store

Part VI Appendixes

A Answers

B ASP Information Resources

C ASP and Visual Development Tools

Index