I bought the book because I find long books on ASP so tedious. ASP is, after all, fairly simple stuff, so I was looking for a book to concisely present some "best-practice" techniques and reference material. Though this book is mainly a breakdown of the ASP objects (and other common objects used with ASP), it really gives no practical information about how to use these objects. (This was a serious hindrance to me when a project I was on was limited to MDAC 2.1.) And, they've arbitrarily skipped important properties and methods (like the BeginTrans method of ADO). You might expect an ASP reference to cover VBScript, at least a brief description of its syntax and reserved words, but none of that is presented here.

Furthermore, a lot of space is wasted by giving a complete ASP page as an example of every property and method they do cover, when just a few lines would do, giving them more space to discuss the way objects work together. Finally, the formatting is so plain it makes information hard to find and read.

In short: as a reference, it has major holes, and as a concise guide to ASP, it falls far short. The title is deceptive to say the least.