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| Page Content | The #1 ASP Community search alliance newsletter article topics All (1108 articles) Advice ASP.NET C# Classic ASP Components Data Access FAQ JScript Sample Code Tools Tutorials VB.NET Web Services XML resources ASP.NET B2 Docs Advanced Search Author List ASP Links ASP Jobs Newsletter Archive Sample Chapters Join The Alliance ASP News Submit ASP News Get Code Help Request an Article Print This Page other info About Advertise Contact Contribute Join The Alliance Privacy Submit ASP News (Advertise Here) books ASP.NET By Example Sample Chapter Check Prices Review --> featured columnist Steven Smith Bio Articles --> ASP Kitchen : Book Shelf ASP Kitchen Book Shelf Books I'm currently reading ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook The book contains around 250 recipes that show how to perform a variety of tasks in ASP.NET. It was written by members of the ASPAlliance , including myself. See my review of the ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook . Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days Although I have spent a very happy four years creating web solutions with Classic ASP, it looks as if the time is right to take a look at ASP.NET. I was very surprised to see that a large number of ASP.NET books had already been released. After a considerable time spent browsing in the local book store, I decided on this book. This book contains a good introductory overview of ASP.NET, including a fairly in depth look at web forms, database connectivity and XML support. I now feel as though I have a basic understanding of the capabilities of ASP.NET, and I believe I am now in a better position to convert my existing sites to the .NET Framework. The other advantage to the book is that it has a copy of the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK Beta 2 on the accompanying CD, which saved having to spend hours downloading it from Microsoft's website. On the downside it barely mentions C# (with most of the examples being in VB.NET) and there are more typographical errors than I would care to mention. I presume these have been corrected in the latest edition though. Programming Distributed Applications with COM+ and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Another purchase to help with the MCSD exams. I also wanted some in depth knowledge of COM, as an increasing number of web projects seem to be making use of it. This book goes very deep into the inner workings of COM. As a consequence, It's heavy going, but is well written enough to sustain reader interest. On the downside, much of this book will probably be obsolete once ASP.NET gains acceptance, but given that most of the projects I have worked on in the past year have been using Windows NT 4.0 as the platform of choice, I'd think that COM+ solutions developed with Visual Basic 6.0 will continue to be developed for some time to come. Useful MCSD books Web Applications With Microsoft Visual Interdev 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit for Exam 70-152 I've used Visual InterDev extensively for over two years, so exam 70-152 (Designing and Implementing Web Solutions with Microsoft Visual InterDev® 6.0) seemed the obvious choice for the MCSD's one elective exam. Designing Relational Database Systems I purchased this book because I'd heard it was one of the best books to read in preparation for the MCSD 70-100 exam, Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures (which I have now passed). I also felt that I needed to read up on some database theory in order to do better at the increasing amount of system design that was coming my way. Database theory can be daunting for those without Computer Science degrees, but luckily this book does not have the feel of an academic textbook. After reading it I feel that I have a much better appreciation of database theory. MCSD Analyzing Requirements: Exam 70-100 (MCSD Study Guides) This book is a guide to the MCSD 70-100 exam, Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures . The book is a useful overview to the topics covered in the exam. It is generally well written, although after reading it I still don't quite understand the different levels of database normalisation :-). A useful feature of the book is that the final chapter contains a 50 question sample test. This can give you an indication as to whether you are ready for the real exam. This book is also available as a bundle with the VB Desktop and Distributed applications Exam Cram books. MCSD Analyzing Requirements Study Guide (Exam 70-100) Another book to help with the MCSD 70-100 exam. With 656 pages and a CD-ROM, there is plenty of material to help with exam preparation. Topics covered by the book include understanding business requirements, design of solutions and the processes involved with software development. The book also comes with a CD containing an HTML version of the book, as well as an HTML based multiple choice test based on the content of the book. I felt that the sample questions on the CD weren't strictly relevent to the actual exam (for example, the CD contains quite a number of questions on risk analysis). This is generally a well written book. Like all the other MCSD books I have read though, it doesn't seem to be too closely related to the actual exam content. Still, it is a good overview of the subject, and would be of value to any developer who wants a basic understanding of the processes involved in software development. Other useful books ADO Programmer's Reference No ASP developer should be without this essential reference guide! ASP 3.0 Programmer's Reference The essential reference guide for Classic ASP. Useful Development Tools ASP Documentation Tool Automatically creates developer documentation for ASP 2.0 and 3.0 web applications written in VBScript and JScript. Documentation for Microsoft Access, SQL Server 7/2000 databases and Visual Basic 6.0 components associated with the web application can also be incorporated into the reports. Documentation is created in HTML, HTML Help and plain text formats. View Sample Output (HTML Help format).View Sample Output (HTML Format). Download Trial Version (5.2Mb ZIP file). Index Server Companion The Index Server Companion is a Windows application that extends the functionality of Microsoft Index Server so that it is able to index content from remote websites and also from ODBC databases. As such it can be used as a low cost alternative to Site Server 3.0 Search. View Product Documentation (119K ZIP file). Try Sample Search Facility . Download Trial Version (1.7Mb ZIP file). ASP.NET Documentation Tool Automatically creates developer documentation for ASP.NET web applications written in C# or VB.NET. Documentation for SQL Server 7/2000 databases and C#/VB.NET components associated with the web application can also be incorporated into the reports. Documentation is created in HTML, HTML Help and plain text formats. View Sample Output (HTML Help format). View Sample Output (HTML Format). Download Trial Version (727K ZIP file). SQL Documentation Tool The SQL Documentation Tool creates technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 databases. Technical documentation is created in HTML and HTML Help formats. The HTML Help format documentation is fully searchable and cross referenced. The SQL Documentation Tool documents SQL Server Tables, Views, Stored Procedures, Triggers and Table Relationships. View Sample Output (HTML Help format). View Sample Output (HTML Format). Download Trial Version (10.3Mb ZIP file). The Website Utility The Website Utility examines websites for errors and areas that need to be optimised for search engines by using a built in web crawling engine. Errors checked for include broken or moved hyperlinks, missing page titles and missing meta tags. It also generates HTML for use in creating website site maps (table of contents pages - like this one ), and is able to create both client-side JavaScript Search Engines and server-side ASP Search Engines for a website. View Sample Output (HTML Format). Download Trial Version (3Mb ZIP file). Text Workbench Text Workbench is a file search and replacement utility for text files and Microsoft Office documents. Make rapid file replacements on multiple files and folders full of files. Advanced replacement options include regular expressions support. It even works on remote file systems via FTP. A Regular Expression Laboratory allows advanced pattern matching and replacement expressions to be built and tested. This great utility will make your everyday development tasks much easier! Download Trial Version (3Mb ZIP file; you have the option to either install directly from this link or save the file for later installation). Author details Brett Burridge spent two years working in the University of Essex Computing Service, before moving to The Internet Applications Group in the Autumn of 1999, where he developed e-Business applications for a range of corporate clients and dot-com start ups. Brett is presently employed as an Internet developer and technical writer through his own company, Winnersh Triangle Web Solutions Limited . The company produces a number of innovative products, including the popular ASP Documentation Tool , the Index Server Companion , the ASP.NET Documentation Tool , the SQL Server Documentation Tool and The Website Utility . The company is also available for web application design and development at reasonable rates, primarily using Microsoft technologies (ASP, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, SQL Server) but also using open source technologies such as PHP, MySQL and Perl. Specialist services include development of search solutions using Microsoft's Index Server and Site Server 3.0 Search. As well as the ASPAlliance, Brett has written articles for Ariadne.ac.uk and ASPToday , and has contributed recipes to the ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook . links Outside web development, Brett is interested in digital photography (here's my photo gallery ), tropical fishkeeping and collecting contemporary works of art by artists such as Doug Hyde . ASP Kitchen : Book Shelf |
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