Empowered with Microsoft® Active Server Pages, you can use your Web server to create and run dynamic, interactive Web sites. You can create scripts in either VBScript or JScript, it doesn't matter – your Web server processes both languages equally, sending HTML formatted results to the user's browser. Beyond ordinary scripting tasks, with ASP you can also extend your scripts into full fledged applications that perform complex tasks, such as collecting and processing order information for an online business. And if you decide to turn your applications into components (compact software modules encapsulating your application's logic), you can use ASP to implement your components.
This three-module tutorial provides a step-by-step introduction to handful of exciting Active Server Pages features. You can learn how to implement these features with either VBScript or JScript – it's your choice.
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- Creating ASP Pages: In this module, you will create ASP pages (.asp files) that use some of the fundamental features of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Active Server Pages. You should have some familiarity with creating HTML pages before you begin this module.
- Using ActiveX Components: In this module, you will use some of the ActiveX
components that come with Active Server Pages. With components, you can extend scripting languages to include information from databases and other sources. You should have some experience with Microsoft® JScript™ or Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript) before you begin this module.
- Writing Your Own Components: In this module, you can create your own
ActiveX or Java™ component for financial calculations. For this module, you must have the 32-bit version of either Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition, Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition, or Visual J++ 1.1 installed, and you should have some experience with Visual Basic or Java programming.
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