ASP Script Examples

Active Servers Pages (ASP) is one of the features that make IIS the premier Web server. Never before has it been so easy to create useful, interactive, Web-based applications, even if you have relatively little experience with programming. If you are a more advanced user, ASP provides the ability to rapidly create sophisticated and robust Web applications without dedicating the often substantial resources required for development in a more conventional programming language environment, such as C++ or Java.

This section is designed to give new users an overview of the capabilities of server-side scripting in general, and ASP in particular, while at the same time providing more advanced examples for experienced developers who want to discover what ASP can do for them.

For each sample script, you will be provided a menu bar with which you can:

Read the overview to find out what the sample demonstrates, how it works, and what to look for.
View the source. The sample scripts, provided in both VBScript and JScript, are well documented and carefully organized.
Run the VBScript version of the sample.

All of this is presented in an easy-to-use interface that allows fast and simple navigation.

Sample scripts provided in this documentation are divided into several categories:

Simple Scripts: Learn the basics of script syntax, flow-control, functions, and procedures.
Building ASP Applications: Study samples that demonstrate the structure and function of a Web-based application.
Web Interactivity using ASP: Discover how to make your application interactive, entertaining, and sophisticated.
Using Installable Components: Learn how to leverage the functionality provided by the Active Server components that are installed with IIS.
Database Connectivity: Explore examples that illustrate the power of the bundled database access component, ActiveXÖ Data Object (ADO).
ASP Transaction Services: Study samples that demonstrate the alliance between Microsoft® Transaction Server (MTS) and ASP scripts.
Message Queuing with ASP: Learn the fundamentals of message queuing in ASP.

While the samples in this section are provided as an educational resource, this is not a tutorial on ASP scripting or application creation. For general information about Web applications, as well as an excellent ASP tutorial, see Web Applications. For more specific information about ASP scripts, including a VBScript and JScript references, see the Scripter's Reference.