Introduction to ASP By “FlyingBono” 2009_01 By FlyingBono 2009_01
What is ASP? Active Server Pages A server side scripting language developed by Microsoft. ASP is a supplement to HTML and CSS. The default language is VBScript. However, you can specify to use JavaScript or PerlScript. ASP is a program that runs inside IIS or PWS. 2009_01 By FlyingBono
What is IIS? Internet Information Services IIS comes with Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. It is also available for Windows NT. IIS is easy to install and ideal for developing and testing web applications. To run IIS you must have Windows NT 4.0 or later. 2009_01 By FlyingBono
What is PWS? Personal Web Server PWS is for older Windows system like Windows 95, 98, and NT. PWS can be found on Windows 95/98 CD. PWS is easy to install and can be used for developing and testing web applications including ASP. To run PWS you must have Windows 95 or later We don't recommend running PWS. 2009_01 By FlyingBono
What is an ASP file? An ASP file is just the same as an HTML file. An ASP file can contain text, HTML, XML, and scripts. Scripts in an ASP file are executed on the server. An ASP file has the file extension “.asp” . 2009_01 By FlyingBono
What a VBScript? Visual Basic Script An Active Scripting language developed by MS VBScript is similar to JavaScript, a client side programming language used to add functionality through the <script> tag. 2009_01 By FlyingBono
How Does ASP Differ from HTML? HTML file When a browser requests an HTML file, the server returns the file. Thus, the browser interprets a HTML file. ASP file When a browser requests an ASP file, IIS passes the request to the ASP engine. The ASP engine reads the ASP file, line by line, and executes the scripts in the file. Finally, the ASP file is returned to the browser as plain HTML. Thus, the server interprets an ASP file. 2009_01 By FlyingBono
Tools for ASP UltraEdit-32 EditPlus Visual Interdev Free software http://www.ultraedit.com/downloads/ultraedit_download.html EditPlus a text editor for the Microsoft Windows OS Share-ware software http://www.editplus.com/kr/download.html Visual Interdev the Web development component of MS Visual Studio 6.0 Not Free 2009_01 By FlyingBono