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| "ASPs are server-generated pages which can call other programs
to do things like access databases, serve different pages to
different browsers. "Active Server Pages is an open, compile-free
application environment in which you can combine HTML, scripts, and
reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic and powerful
Web-based business solutions. Active Server Pages enables
server-side scripting for IIS with native support for both VBScript
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| Anatomy of an ASP
Script In HTML, you surround individual tags with brackets, and ASP is not that different. You use the <% %> delimiters in ASP to mark off where a script begins and ends. ASP material can appear anywhere on the HTML page, as long as it sits within the <% %> marks. So, a chunk of ASP code might appear before the HTML tag, or it might appear within an HTML tag. Either way, your ASP and HTML will be tightly integrated. When you start working with databases, you'll find you can write your HTML once to create a template to control the look and feel of a set of records. Your ASP script will then loop through the database and dump the necessary information onto the page, according to the formatting and structure you've defined in your HTML. ASP lets you write less code to pull and format information from a database. Plus, the data pulled is always live--as current as the database, at least--so you'll spend far less time editing static HTML pages with onesy-twosy changes to the content. Primary Language:
VBScript <%@LANGUAGE=ScriptingLanguage%> VBScript is easy to learn, and once you start working with the syntax and the logic employed, you'll find it increasingly easy to employ. All examples in this article use VBScript. (official word from the CNET Builder.com site) |
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