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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 14
Line 3 of Example 2-1 now reads

Function AlertJS()

Should read:

function AlertJS()

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 34
The last line of code on the page now reads

Application.Contents(1)="California"

Should read:

Application(1)="California"

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 35
second block of code

Some quotation marks are missing from the second block of code. It currently reads:

...
If IsEmpty(Application.Contents.Item(STATE_SEVENTH)) Then
Application.Contents(STATE_SEVENTH)="Texas"
End If
...

Should read:

...
If IsEmpty(Application.Contents.Item("STATE_SEVENTH")) Then
Application.Contents("STATE_SEVENTH")="Texas"
End If
...

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 40
4th line from top

Error Type:
Active Server Pages, ASP 0134 (0x80004005)
The object has an invalid ProgID of 'MSWC.MyInfo'.
/ASP in a Nutshell Examples/Text Book Examples/Ch04_Ex_StaticObjects.asp, line 10



Anonymous   
Printed Page 57
very last line

The object objASPError is not declared before being used and need to be.

Line
Set objASPError = Server.GetLastError()
should have this line somewhere before it :
Dim objASPError

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 85
The code above the Example now reads

blnHasKeys = Response.Cookies("Colors").HasKeys
If blnHasKeys Then
strColor3 = Response.Cookies("Colors")("color3")
End If

Should read:

blnHasKeys = Request.Cookies("Colors").HasKeys
If blnHasKeys Then
Response.Cookies("Colors")("color3") = strColor3
End If

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 87
3rd line

3rd line, FTP reference:ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-http-state-man-mec-08.txt;

Displays message: The page can not be displayed.
This link works -
http://public.research.mimesweeper.com/Standards/IETF/Draft/draft-ietf-http-state-man-mec-08.txt

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 90
Start of page

1. The variable SubKey has not been declared (you declare everything else so
I assume you're recommending option explicit).

2. VBScript arrays are option base 0, so you appear to be dimensioning
aryPeripherals one element larger than necessary, and then not using the first
element. It works, but I found it confusing. Dimensioning the array correctly
would have helped me understand that the form elements start at 1 and the array
elements start at 0. As it is I spent half hour playing about with the script
to check this!

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 101
tip (owl)

The information in this tip is spurious, at best.
A SafeArray is not a simple array, but to claim it is not an array at all is misleading.
To say that the bounds information is not available through script is completely wrong (see LBound and
UBound).

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 109
Most of the page.

Warnings are given to the effect that the Microsoft documentation is wrong with
respect to the syntax of this item, but this is untrue.

The Response.Charset property, in fact, works just like any other property, and not
like a method. (Based on testing IIS4 and IIS5.)

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 142
top of the page;

In the notes section, it states that you CAN'T use "../" with Server.MapPath.
In actuality, you CAN use "../" when mapping a path. I was doing so when
connecting to an access database in another directory and it worked.

My exact code was:
mPath = Server.MapPath("../../databases") & ""

I am using Windows 2000 and IIS 5(ASP 3)

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 153
third paragraph

On Page 153 of Asp in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, there is a 'Notes' section dealing with the Session Timeout property. In the third paragraph on that page, the author
states that the "property affects all user sessions, not just the current
session...." He continues with an example of how this might work.

This is incorrect. If you set a timeout value, it affects only the current session.
Other timeout values in affect for other users running the same application are not
affected and each can have different timeout values.

We originally wrote an application assuming that the statement in the book was
correct. However, we discovered after the application was in the field that the
session timeout is user specific. We have since run careful tests to confirm that
this is the case and have modified our application and documentation accordingly.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 157
Lines 13 and 14 in the second code sample now read

Session.Content.Item("SessionVar1") = strVar1
Session.Content("SessionVar2") = strVar2

Should read:

Session.Contents.Item("SessionVar1") = strVar1
Session.Contents("SessionVar2") = strVar2

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 168
Field Object.

As far as I know Field Objects have a property called Value, probably the
most important Field property. Maybe you reference this property in another
area.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 171
11th line of the second source code example on the page

End Sub

The Sub statement is from VBScript, but is not supported in JScript. The line should
be changed to:

end function

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 172
[172] TRANSACTION: Parameters

The descriptions for both the "Supported" and "Not_Supported" parameters read:
"Instructs the web server not to start a transaction."

Is this true because these parameters ar not yet supported, or is this an
error?

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 195
description for "Provider" in Table 12-5

In the description for "Provider" in Table 12-5, change "MSADSQL" to "MSDASQL".

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 202
AbsolutePage description (1st item in Table 12-20)

The last sentence of this description states that the AbsolutePage property
is "a read-only value of type Long."

This property is in fact NOT read-only.

You can use this property to set OR return the page on which the current
record resides. See:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/dasdk/mdap436t.htm

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 205
GetRows under left-hand list of methods

This has a note "a" indicating "discussed in more detail later in this chapter."

There is no discussion later in the chapter. The Methods section of the chapter proceeds from Execute
directly to Move.

I was specifically looking for information on the Rows parameter of GetRows today. If GetRows is not
going to be included, then th
ere should be no note "a" (but I would really prefer it if the GetRows information were included and the
note "a" were true!).

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 316
First bullet under 'Rules at a Glance'

Paragraph states that 'If maximum_value is greater than initial_value, and no Step keyword is used or the
step counter is positive,
the For...Next loop is ignored (etc.)'

Paragraph should state that 'If initial_value is greater than maximum_value...'

 Anonymous