Developing ASP Components507 pages | O'Reilly; 1 edition (July 15, 1999) | 1565924460 | html | 3,5 Mb
The popularity of Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP) technology is growing rapidly. Part of the reason is ASP’s flexibility: the output of ASP scripts is most commonly HTML, which is included in the text stream returned to the client, making it a convenient way of creating browser-independent web content. But an additional reason–and one that will become more and more important over time, as web applications replace web pages–is its extensibility. And the most effective way to extend ASP is to develop custom ASP components. However, the techniques for developing custom ASP components, along with the snags and pitfalls of developing custom components, are not well documented. In addition, to successfully develop ASP components one must be a jack-of-all-trades: programming requires some knowledge of COM, of threading models, and of the ASP object model, as well as a mastery of one or more language tools and development environments. That’s where Developing ASP Components comes in. The first section of the book explores the topics all developers need to know to develop components for ASP effectively: