This is one of the best reference books for me - I find nutshell ones a little brief (great for checking the syntax though), this reference book though, is something you read through - it opens up things you'd never have taken the time to find normally, new commands, new ways of using the commands you allready know - a very useful book.

I'd say something like the ASP3 (beginners or professional) book, or SAM's ecommerce with ASP, alongside this reference, would be all you needed (although, I love my VBscript in a nutshell - very very useful if you aren't totally fluent).


A very good resource.   November 3, 2000
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Excellent book, covers ASP 3.0, IIS 5, COM+, XML and much, much more in great detail. It's the sort of book you have by your PC at all times, but also you can take on the train and read. Be warned though, It is not a teach yourself guide it is very technical. But you can learn so much from it, if you are developing ASP on Windows 2000.