ASP Books

ASP has been around since late 1996 and has made great impact on not only on web development, but how people view interactive web development. With the help of these books, people can now create great sites, both personal and business, without spending a lot of money or time.

RELATED BOOKS

ASP is a blend of scripting languages, databases, object design etc. So, you may want to check these sections as well

• Databases - No web development is complete without databases. These books are helpful in learning about databases and what they can do in conjunction with web tools.
• Scripting - VBScript, JavaScript, Perl
• Object Design with Microsoft technologies - These books help you create components to supplement the code in your ASP pages.

Editor's Pick - Professional Active Server Pages 2.0
Brian Francis, Alex Homer Et. Al.

It's finally here!! The much awaited 2nd edition to the most popular ASP book. Excellent coverage of latest technologies - MTS, Message Queue etc. The book is great - exhaustive and complete discussion on almost any ASP topic there is on earth. MTS is a welcome addition, with more people building enterprise apps using ASP. If you are serious about ASP, buy this book!

Editor's Pick - Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0
Brian Francis, John Kauffman, Juan T Libre, David Sussman, Chris Ullman

If you are a beginner to ASP, this book gives you a clear understanding what ASP is and teaches this great technology in highly understandable language. The book is suitable for all beginners, especially if you have had some HTML experience before. This book makes a clear attempt to make a good ASP programmer of a beginner.

Editor's Pick - Developing ASP Components
Shelley Powers

Finally, a book that covers ASP component development is here. And, it is very good too! Shelley Powers has done a good job in not only discussing the development of components, but choosing all major development tools - Visual Basic, C++ and Java. The book is written in a way even beginners can greatly benefit from it.

Active Server Pages for Dummies
Bill Hatfield

A good book for non-programmers to start ASP. This book follows on the other dummies series of book, which assumes no prior knowledge of ASP.

Instant HTML Programmer's Reference
Alex Homer, Chris Ullman, Steve Wright

One book you must have to develop ASP. Surprised ?! Well, this book is one of the best pocket HTML references, so you can create not only great ASP, but also great web pages. The book deals with HTML 4 and not a specific to either Netscape or IE versions of HTML.