"Book of the Week" Archive

Only those books which have passed our standards of quality become "Books of the Week." Actually, the books are not rotated every week, but a book can remain the "Book of the Week" until a newer book that meets our standard comes along. All the reviews are by Manohar Kamath unless mentioned otherwise.

Aug 29, 1999

Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 24 Hours
Christoph Wille, Christian Koller

Read our In-depth review of this book and see why we call it "Book of the Week"

Read an interview with the coauthor Christoph Wille and a sample chapter "Retrieving data from a database."

Aug 8, 1999

Developing ASP Components
Shelley Powers

It has been a long time in waiting, a book on creating ASP components is finally here! The book is a serious discussion on ASP, components, and the "scenes" behind component design.

The book discusses ASP model, COM and most important, threading models. It teaches you to create components in Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Java, thus catering to almost all ASP/COM developers.

The book comes with great examples, is written in a simple style (which we at the Corner like the most) and is suitable for ASP developers of all experience levels. All these make this book the "Book of the Week"

Read an interview with the author Shelley Powers

May 10, 1999

Professional ADO RDS Programming with ASP
Matt Brown, Charles Caison, John Papa, Peter DeBetta, Eric Wilson

WOW! This book is probably the second best book from Wrox press that I have read (the first one being their "Professional ASP" book). The book contains 3 main areas of discussion - ADO, RDS and ASP with Oracle databases.

Please Read a detailed review on this book here..

Excellent coverage on ADO, good examples and easy language all make this book the Book of The Week and I strongly recommend it.

April 19, 1999

Troubleshooting IIS 4.0 and Visual InterDev 6.0
Ken Spencer

The first one in the series of books on debugging IIS/ASP applications is this book by Ken Spencer. Ken is a noted author and trainer who writes regularly for magazines such as MIND and VBPJ.

In this book, Ken tackles various issues of troubleshooting right from installing and setting up IIS. Then he moves on the more complex topics as registering COM components, database access and performance tuning (my favorite). The book follows a "Problem and Solution" formats that lets developers easily identify with their own problems. Moreover, instead of delving on a lot of theory, the book addresses just that problem with the theory behind it. The book is in a pocket book format making it easy to carry.

All the things above make this book the Book of The Week and I highly recommend it. Click here for a sample chapter.