ASP Best Practices

Style Guide for Scripts in ASP Pages

The following conventions, which apply to the development of ASP pages containing scripts written in VBScript or JScript, are designed to enhance consistency, readability, and ease of maintenance.

In this guide:

• Blank Lines in Files
• Comments in Scripts
• Constant Names
• Context Switching
• Delimiting Lines of Script
• Indentation
• Language Default
• Layout Order of Scripts
• Object and Procedure Call Names
• Paths, Using MapPath
• Select Case Statement
• Spaces in Scripts
• Statement Styles
• String Concatenation
• String Function
• Variable Case Values
• Variable Declaration
• Variable Names
• Variable Value Trimming

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