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Designing Active Server Pages
Developers of Active Server Pages often reinvent the wheel.
Their background in web design, with its separate HTML page
for each viewable web page on a site, leads many ASP
developers to create a distinct ASP page each time they
think they need one. Often times, these pages are
functionally similar. With intelligent planning,
an ASP
developer stands to save a great deal of time by creating
reusable ASP pages.
Designing Active Server Pages is tailor-made for these
developers.
There is currently a plethora of Active Server Pages books.
However, the vast majority of these books are either
technical references or how-to books for beginners.
Designing Active Server Pages is written for the
intermediate to advanced user. Furthermore, nearly every
other book on ASP focuses on using VBScript, even though ASP
supports an array of scripting languages, including JScript
and PerlScript. Designing Active Server Pages shows how to
start using these other languages.
The latest version of the scripting engines (Version 5.1 for
VBScript) adds new features not available before the 5.0
release. These features include class support for VBScript,
and Regular Expression searching through the use of a COM
object. Designing Active Server Pages explains why using
classes in VBScript is beneficial, and demonstrates the
power of regular expression searching.
This book shows how to simplify the process by only
requiring one ASP page to handle ALL of the Forms throughout
a web site, thus reducing the amount of code one has to
write.
Topics include:
Using various Microsoft and third-party components to
enhance ASP pages
Creating components using VB and/or VC++
Sample code for performing routine ASP tasks
Techniques to allow for reusable database scripts on the
database system and on ASP pages
How to obtain and register third-party components, thus
saving massive amounts of time by reusing someone else's
code
Designing Active Server Pages is for developers who have
already mastered the basics of ASP application development
and are ready to take the next logical step. It is sure to
become an indispensable part of every web developer's
library.
CONTENTS:
Preface
1. Introduction
What Is Application Design?
What's Wrong with ASP Design?
Why Hasn't ASP Design Advanced?
What Can Be Done to Improve ASP Design?
Further Reading
2. Choosing a Server-Side Scripting Language
The Popularity of VBScript
Specifying the Scripting Language
Creating ASP Pages with JScript
Creating ASP Pages with PerlScript
Creating ASP Pages with Python
Further Reading
3. Exception Handling
A Bit of Terminology
Detecting When Exceptions Occur
Responding to Exceptions
Creating Custom HTTP Error Pages
Further Reading
4. Regular Expressions, Classes, and Dynamic Evaluation and Execution
Using the RegExp Object
Using Object-Oriented Programming with VBScript
Using Dynamic Evaluation and Execution
Further Reading
5. Form Reuse
The Importance of Code Reuse
A Primer on Form Use
Form Validation
Creating Reusable Server-Side Form Validation Routines
Developing Reusable Form Creation Routines
The Practicality of Reuse
Further Reading
6. Database Reuse
Examining Database Usage
The Building Blocks for Creating Reusable Administration Pages
Creating Reusable Administration Pages
Further Reading
7. Using Components
COM-A Quick Overview
Lesser-Known Microsoft COM Components
Enhancing Microsoft's COM Components
Building Components
Further Reading
8. Enhancing Your Web Site with Third-Party Components
Executing DOS and Windows Applications on the Web Server with ASPExec
Obtaining Detailed Information About Your Users's Browsers
Grabbing Information from Other Web Servers
Encrypting Information
Uploading Files from the Browser to the Web Server
Why Reinvent the Wheel?
Further Reading
Index
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