Rating: 

Most real engineers who develop any form of application are not so short sighted. Indeed, most Web Application people I know, positively refuse to use VBScript. A more general and considered approach to accomodating JavaScript (or at a push JScript) would take this book from being useful to invaluable.

It is also a little thin on detail - but the information that is there is useful or in most cases at least thought-provoking.

What is lacking is perhaps the overall concept and design philosophy of larger scale ASP Applications. We all know about 'administrator' pages - these are never very interesting or involved (but good cases for reuse as is demonstrated). The real tricks are the user front ends where such tricks are far more difficult to make generic.

There is also little consideration for performance, and the problem of catering for the 56K'rs in the world. Whilst Broadband/T3 development is commonplace, adopting such involved measures does significantly affect the 'web application experience'. Scott does not seem to care. (Maybe in five years, and we all have at least broadband this is acceptable...)

I would recommend this book on the basis it extends the information boundaries but would not recommend this to a beginner!