ASP
Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) is a server-side
scripting environment that you can use to create
interactive Web pages and build powerful Web
applications. When the server receives a request for
an ASP file, it processes server-side scripts
contained in the file to build the Web page that is
sent to the browser. In addition to server-side
scripts, ASP files can contain HTML (including
related client-side scripts) as well as calls to COM
components that perform a variety of tasks, such as
connecting to a database or processing business
logic.
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ASP Embedded To HTML : | Previously, to process user input on the Web server you would have had to learn a language such as Perl or C to build a conventional Common Gateway Interface (CGI) application. With ASP, however, you can collect HTML form information and pass it to a database using simple server-side scripts embedded directly in your HTML documents. |
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Language-neutral : | If you are skilled at a scripting language such as VBScript, JScript, or PERL, you already know how to use Active Server Pages. |
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ASP & COM : | User can develop his own COM components and port those components within the ASP program code. This can be well implemented for complex web applications. |
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Development of Web applications like Business to Customer and Customer to Business sites. |
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Development of Complex server-side applications with COM and XML embedded with it. |
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An Overview: Introduces the IIS programming model. |
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Design Decisions: Describes several key issues you should consider in designing web applications. |
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Accessing Data with ASP: Introduces data access from a Web page with Microsoft® ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO). |
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Processing Transactions: Outlines how IIS and Component Services, available with Microsoft Transaction Server work together to provide Web-based transactions |
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Security Ramifications for IIS Applications: Introduces the issues Web developers face when accessing and providing secure data. |
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Development Technologies: Reviews some of the more recent Web technologies, such as XML and Dynamic HTML. |
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Building Components for ASP: Reviews the development cycle for building components to be used by ASP. |
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Maintaining State : Use of Session and Application objects . |
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Storing Information on User's Machine: Use of Cookies. |