Designing Active Server Pages Review

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Book:		Designing Active Server Pages
Subject:		Designing Active Server Pages Review
Date:		2003-01-22 06:49:33
From:		Kevin Lloyd

Rating: All in all a good read, well presented and not too much jargon. I am new to the WEB (late starter) but have several years experience of VB. I particularly liked the chapter on reuse and on principle would encourage this approach. That said, I first tried lifting the example code from the book as I was digesting the chapter. At the end I created the necessary database to test the code. I have to say that most of it worked without issue, however, it does not appear to be complete. For example, I added some form hints (field descriptions) but these were not propogated to admin pages as expected. I even downloaded the zip files from the O'Reilly site. The end results were the same. As I say, I come from a VB background so was comfortable with the amount of VBScript within and the programatic approach but am dissapointed with the end result. Perhaps a little more testing of the examples would prevail. Meanwhile it will prove good exercise to debug the examples myself.