ASP Programming

Learn ASP Programming

If you are just an ordinary computer user, who surfs the web for shopping and online banking, then you may have no idea what ASP programming means. However, if you have suddenly become interested in creating dynamic and interactive pages for your personalized website, then ASP programming is exactly what you need to learn.

ASP programming involves the technology developed by Microsoft, which take text scripts in an HTML context then run them on to the Web server, creating interactive web pages. If this sounds complicated, the following are some useful information you need to know about ASP programming:

1) Before you endeavor the complex world of ASP programming, you should first know what ASP really means. Short for Active Server Pages, ASP is a program that runs within IIS (or Internet Information Services). IIS is a free component that comes with Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, which can be easily downloaded from Microsoft's website.

2) In ASP programming, the ASP file is just the same as HTML file. However, these ASP files can also contain scripts, text, HTML and XML. All ASP files have the file extension, ".asp". Scripts on ASP files are executed on the server.

3) Before learning the fundamentals of ASP programming, you need to have some knowledge of HTML, XHTML and a scripting language, such as VBScript or JavaScript.

ASP programming is a powerful tool for web developers. It allows you to edit, add and change any content of a website's page dynamically. Compared to Perl and CGI, ASP programming provides web developers reduction of network traffic and security that the ASP code will not be viewed from the browser. ASP programming allows you to access data and return results to a browser, respond to user queries submitted from HTML forms and customize web pages to make the interface user-friendly.

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