Active Server Pages (ASP) is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create dynamic Web pages or build powerful Web applications. ASP pages are files that contain HTML tags, text, and script commands. ASP pages can call ActiveX components to perform tasks, such as connecting to a database or performing a business calculation. With ASP, you can add interactive content to your Web pages or build entire Web applications that use HTML pages as the interface to your customer.
The topics in this section introduce Active Server Pages, explain the basic concepts of scripting with Active Server Pages, and discuss more complex application issues such as how to maintain state.
This section contains:
- Introducing Active Server Pages: Introduces ASP and describes new features in this release.
- Using Scripting Languages: Provides the basic information you need to write a script, including information on the language syntax.
- Writing Simple Scripts: Provides information on writing scripts to perform basic tasks, such as getting information from an HTML form.
- ASP Applications: Provides the more complex information you need to write applications, such as managing session state.
This section does not contain information on:
- Information on more advanced topics, such as using session state; see ASP Applications
- Reference pages for the built-in ASP objects
- Reference pages for the components that come with ASP
- Building your own ASP components
- Reference pages for VBScript
- Reference pages for JScript
- Sample scripts provided with the SDK