I was very disappointed with this book. As a heavy-duty ASP programmer, the subject seemed very interesting and relevant, but the book was quite a let down.
There was nothing terribly deep here. I was hoping that we might learn about how ASP works as a very high bandwidth service, but all we learn is very straightforward info that is more or less obvious to anyone with COM and IIS experience. True, there was some discussion of Microsoft's continued use of undocumented interfaces (!) that is probably not findable anywhere else, but these tended to be minutiae of how ASP works.
Since the theme of the book is the ASP clone that Flanders wrote, you'd think the source code would be available somehow. There are lots of excerpts in the text, but it would be nice to be able to see the whole thing somewhere - and perhaps even try to run it. But if this code is available somewhere, I couldn't find it.
The book is advertised as 212 pages, but in fact the text is a grand total of 123 whole pages - the font is large, and big margins....
The level of discourse was also very uneven. The first chapter was a first-level cut at how HTTP works, which I would hope would be blindingly obvious to the target audience for this book.
So kudos are in order for taking on a new and important topic - at least it wasn't yet another copy of publicly available documentation. But I wanted more.
