September 2000
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
10h 6m
English
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How This Book Is Organized
This book is divided into eight chapters. The first chapter serves as an introduction to the book, describing what technologies ASP offers to aid building robust, reusable applications. This chapter introduces some of the new features in ASP 3.0 and the VBScript scripting engine that are used throughout the book to assist in application design.
The next three chapters expound on the technologies briefly discussed in the introduction. Chapter 2, discusses what scripting languages are available for designing ASP pages. The vast majority of books and ASP resource web sites present ASP examples in VBScript only. This chapter discusses some of the other languages that can be used and their advantages and disadvantages. When building an ASP application with a team of developers, there are times when a language other than VBScript needs to be used due to the various developers’ past experiences. For example, if only one of five developers is fluent with VBScript, perhaps using JScript or PerlScript as the server-side scripting language would be a better choice.
Chapter 3, examines exception-handling techniques as well as the new ASPError object introduced with ASP 3.0. Too often, when an error occurs in an ASP page, an unreadable, ugly message is displayed. With proper exception-handling techniques, these unreadable error messages can be avoided. In certain cases, errors that usually generate error messages can be “fixed” on the fly!
In Chapter 4, we look at using ...
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