Building ASP Pages

ASP provides a powerful and extensible framework for creating server-side scripts with any COM compliant scripting or programming language. This section is intended to teach the fundamentals of using a scripting language to create an .asp file. You will learn how to accomplish a wide range of basic programming tasks, from creating a loop to manipulating a database and processing transactions. Whether you are a beginning or experienced scripter, you can envision the topics in this section as development goals, that is, as demonstrations intended to encourage you by suggesting more sophisticated ways in which you can utilize ASP. This can lead to applications that perform better and are more maintainable.

Although these topics introduce some scripting and programming concepts, they are not intended to teach you a scripting language. Microsoft scripting languages (Microsoft VBScript and Microsoft JScript) provide their own documentation, and many additional scripting books are available from your local bookseller. So, if you are new to scripting, take advantage of the many books, classes, and Internet resources which can help you to master these languages.

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