Mastering Active Server Pages 3

Mastering Active Server Pages is the right book for anyone building dynamic Web sites, for e-commerce and other uses. Whatever your web background, you'll find the step-by-step instructions that will make you a master of the latest version of this increasingly vital technology. But this is much more than a guide to ASP: it's a blueprint to creating dynamic, easy-to-maintain, professional sites using ASP and a host of related technologies.

Coverage includes:

• Setting up and configuring virtual directories
• Blending ASP and HTML
• Understanding and using ASP intrinsic objects
• Using VBScript and JScript/JavaScript with ASP
• Accommodating differences between browsers
• Using components delivered with ASP
• Accessing files with the FileSystemObject
• Understanding the Dictionary object
• Debugging ASP scripts
• Accessing databases with SQL and ADO
• Creating and controlling transactions from ASP
• Choosing and using a state maintenance option
• Understanding NT security and creating secure ASP applications
• Planning and deploying ASP applications
• Taking advantage of client-side scripting and DHTML
• Building VB components for use with ASP
• Using XML/XSL with ASP

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I Basic Active Server Pages

Chapter 1 Behind the Scenes-How Active Server Pages Work

Chapter 2 Introduction to IIS

Chapter 3 ASP Requirements

Chapter 4 HTML Basics

Part II Intrinsic ASP Objects

Chapter 5 The Response Object

Chapter 6 The Request Object

Chapter 7 The Application and Server Objects

Chapter 8 The Session Object

Part III Writing Server-Side Code

Chapter 9 Introduction to VBScript

Chapter 10 Introduction to JScript

Chapter 11 The Scripting Dictionary Object

Chapter 12 File Access with ASP

Chapter 13 Debugging ASP and Error-Handling

Part IV Using Components

Chapter 14 The Browser Capabilities Component

Chapter 15 Other ASP Components

Chapter 16 Sending and Receiving Email with ASP

Part V Accessing Databases with ASP and ADO

Chapter 17 Introduction to Relational Databases and SQL

Chapter 18 Introduction to ADO

Chapter 19 Accessing Data with ADO

Chapter 20 Controlling Transactions in ASP

Part VI ASP Applications

Chapter 21 Introduction to ASP Applications

Chapter 22 State Maintenance in ASP Applications

Chapter 23 Controlling Access and Monitoring

Chapter 24 Planning Applications

Part VII Advanced ASP

Chapter 25 Client-Side Scripting

Chapter 26 Build Your Own Components

Chapter 27 Automating Active Server Pages

Chapter 28 Efficiency and Scalability

Part VIII Beyond ASP

Chapter 29 Other Operating Systems

Chapter 30 Using XML/XSL with ASP

Appendices

Appendix A ASP Intrinsic Objects' Methods, Properties, Collections, and Events

Appendix B ASP Components' Methods and Properties

Appendix C Quick HTML Reference

Appendix D VBScript Reference

Appendix E JScript Reference

Appendix F DOM Reference

Index