1. Active Server Pages Points of Interest Chapters 1-4

2. ASP versus HTML Major differences? What can ASP do that HTML cannot?

3. Active Web Sites ActiveX controls - Visual C++ or Visual Basic Create a functionality Java Scripting Languages (VBScript, JavaScript) ASP and Dynamic HTML

4. Running ASP PWS, IIS, Chilisoft

5. ASP Pitfalls and Editing Open from the server URL instead of the pathname. What does P&U primarily use for an editor? Did people get InterDev 6.0 yet?

6. ASP Objects Request: to get information from the user Response: to send information to the user Server: to control the Internet Information Server Application: to share application-level information and control settings for the lifetime of the application Session: to store information about and change settings for the user's current Web- server session ObjectContext: (used mostly with MTS)

7. ASP Objects Each set of objects has a set of functions it can perform called methods and one or more properties value = object.property value = object.method() Some newer objects at http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/server/asp/comtutorial.asp

8. Order of Execution 1. global.asa (Text file with details about an ASP application, such as when it should begin and end [more in CH9]) 2. Server-side includes (refers to current directory) (refers to root of system) 3. Jscript/JavaScript tagged within 4. HTML with Scripts tagged within 5. VBScript tagged within tags

9. A sample (from ASP text) Using a form to get information and display it...

10. Variables Naming variables in VBScript 255 characters Must begin with an alphabetical Must not contain an embedded period Not case-sensitive

11. The Variant All variables in with different data types are of one type variant Can use the TypeName () funtion to determine the subtype of the variant PieceofString = 5 WhatTypeofVar = TypeName (PieceofString)

12. Conversions Since variants are automatically a subtype when a value is assigned to them, sometimes one needs to change the subtype Check page 111-112) for functions

13. Some Interesting Items Assignment Operator Number1 = 2 Number1 = Number1 + 1 Comparison If Number1 = 2 Then... Concatenating Variants (subtype string) strConcatenate = "Helter" & "Skelter" strConcatenate2 = "Helter" & " " & "Skelter" Naming Conventions (114)

14. Dim and Option Explicit DIM (aka dimension) Dim ComputerSystem ComputerSystem = "Amiga" Option Explicit: every variable in the program must be explicitly declared in the code before it is used. First line in a client-side script Before when using server-side

15. Variable Scope Local Variables (122-123) Global Variables (125) Private strGlobal (just within script declared) If in client-side ends when script does If in a server-side should last in ASP page/session

16. Arrays and Multi-Dimensional Arrays Declaring Loop Dim and Redim Preserve Multi-dimensional