Active Server Pages (ASP) is a technology that enables the development of dynamic web sites. ASP was developed by Microsoft to allow server side development. ASP files are HTML files with special tags containing source code that provide the dynamic content.
Previously,static web pages were displayed. Typically these were people's first experience with making web pages so consisted of My Home Page sites and company marketing information. Afterwards Perl and C were languages used on the web server to provide dynamic content. Soon most languages including Visual basic,Delphi,C and Java could be used to write applications that provided dynamic content using data from text files or database requests. These were known as CGI server side applications. ASP was developed by Microsoft to allow HTML developers to easily provide dynamic content supported as standard by Microsoft's free Web Server,Internet Information Server (IIS).
You can use JavaScript or VBScript at the server but VBScript is generally the most popular,plus most text books will have their examples in this language. Microsoft realised that they had many VB developers that wanted to get into web based development.
Even as a beginner or newbie you'll be amazed how easy programming with Active Server Pages is.
Asp Discussion
- - How to upload files
- - Offshore outsourcing comp
- - Example of editing in Dat
- - Example of Inserting and
- - Example of Image Upload
