Professional Active Server Pages 2.0 - Softcover

Francis, Brian; Harrison, Richard; Sussman, David; Murphy, Shawn; Smith, Robert; Fedorov, Alex; Homer, Alex; Smith, Rob; Sussman, Dave; Wood, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861001266 ISBN 13: 9781861001269

Publisher: Apress, 1998

Synopsis

Active Server Pages is part of Microsoft's server-based technology. It enhances HTML pages for a Web or corporate intranet.

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About the Author

Alex Fedorov is working as an executive editor for "ComputerPress" magazine - a monthly software and hardware magazine, published in Moscow, Russia. During his work in magazine Alex authored more that 150 articles on various programming topics, including Delphi programming, Internet programming, COM/OLE and other technologies. Alex is also the author of several books, published in Russian.

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Chapter One A New Generation of Web Solutions Without doubt, the World Wide Web alone is currently causing major excitement in business, but the challenges that abound are also probably giving a lot of sleepless nights to many senior company personnel. The rapid changes in information processing and networking technology are compressing time - the time that is desperately needed for the business to adapt to the many opportunities offered by the new generation of Internet solutions.

While Microsoft joined the Internet game relatively late, they rapidly gained momentum and have since released an incredible range of innovative Internet products all embracing various industry standards. These products have provided users rich Internet experiences and organizations the mechanisms to develop business critical Internet solutions. Internet Information Server version 4.0 (IIS4) is the latest release of Microsoft's leading commercial web server and is an essential component in their Internet strategy.

Fundamental to Web development with IIS4 is Active Server Pages (ASP) version 2 and we shall see that this is a compelling technology for quickly building dynamic pages 'on the fly' by integrating the Web server with other software components, databases and legacy systems. In this book we shall study ASP in depth and see that not only is it extremely powerful, but also far simpler to implement than the traditional (and soon to become obsolete) methods used for extending web servers.

To begin, we'll discuss Microsoft's web solution that enables the next generation of business systems to exploit the convergence of computers and networking for business advantage:

Microsoft's Internet strategy and development toolkit

Developing solutions using software components and Microsoft's ActiveX technology for software component co-operation

The powerful functionality available in Microsoft BackOffice which can be exploited in Web Solutions

The architecture of IIS 4

Where to get hold of IIS 4, PWS and ASP and how to install them

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861001266
• ISBN 13: 9781861001269
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 991