Developing ASP components

Shelley Powers9781565927506, 1565927508

Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP) technology has become wildly popular with web developers. However, the techniques for developing custom ASP components, not to mention the inevitable snags and pitfalls, are not well documented. What’s more, the successful ASP component developer must be a jack-of-all-trades, with some knowledge of COM and COM+, threading models, and the ASP object model, as well as a mastery of one or more language tools and development environments. That’s where Developing ASP Components, 2nd Edition, comes in. Its first section explores the topics everyone needs to know to develop effective ASP components: * Configuring the ASP development environment. * ASP components and the Component Object Model (COM). * ASP components and threading models. * ASP components and Component Services, which provide a variety of services to ASP components. * The objects, properties, methods, and events available in the ASP object model.ASP components are language independent, and developers increasingly tend to use more than a single language tool. Thus the remainder of the book focuses on ASP component development using one of two major development tools – Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C++ (with the ActiveX Template Library) – along with a number of other languages, such as Perl and Delphi. Each section focuses on the issues that concern the ASP component developer using that particular development environment. These issues include: * Accessing ASP’s intrinsic objects. * Accessing data using ADO. * Creating n-tier web applications with VB. * Handling persistence using MFC along with Visual C++/ATL.It’s this strong focus on two major development environments, along with a thorough grounding in essential ASP topics, that makes Developing ASP Components the definitive resource for the ASP application and component developer.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Copyright……Page 5
About the Author……Page 6
Table of Contents……Page 12
Preface……Page 14
1.Writing ASP
Components……Page 22
2.Setting Up the ASP Development
Environment……Page 35
3.ASP Components
and COM……Page 90
4.ASP Components,
Threads, and Contexts……Page 112
5.COM+ Services and
ASP Components and
Applications……Page 135
6.ASP Interaction: Scripting
and ASP Components……Page 157
7.Creating a Simple Visual Basic
ASP Component……Page 201
8.Creating ASP/ADO
Components……Page 246
9.Creating an ASP
Middle Tier with ADO……Page 287
10.Server-Side XML Through VB
ASP Components……Page 319
11.Take a Message: Accessing
CDO from ASP Components……Page 342
12.Working with Active Directory
from ASP Applications……Page 365
13.Working with MSMQ
Components……Page 401
14.Creating C++ ASP
Components……Page 435
15.Adding Data Access to C++
Components with ADO……Page 489
16.The CDO Interfaces from
C++ Components……Page 527
17.Accessing Active Directory
from C++ Components……Page 549
18.Accessing MSMQ from C++
ASP Components……Page 571
19.Persistence with ASP
Components Using
ATL and MFC……Page 602
20.ASP Components
Created with Java……Page 617
21.Creating ASP Components
with Delphi……Page 663
22.Perl-Based Components
Using ActiveState’s PDK……Page 698
23.Creating Scripting
Language Components……Page 740
Aa ASP Built-in Object
Quick Reference……Page 772
Ab The Weaver Database……Page 797
Index……Page 812