Introduction to ASP

ØActive Server Pages (ASP) is a technology that enables the development of dynamic web sites

ØASP files are HTML files with special tags containing source code that provide the dynamic content

ØActive Server Pages enable server side scripting for IIS using scripting languages like VBScript and Jscript

ØASP was the technology that was widely used  for creating dynamic web pages prior to ASP.NET

ØExample: The home page of ILITE

 

 

Active Server Pages (ASP) technology provides the environment in which you can run scripts on the server. If you can write HTML, you can create an ASP file. It's really that easy. Your ASP file is simply a file that can contain any combination of HTML, scripting, and calls to components. When you make a change to the ASP file on the server, you need to only save the changes to the file—the next time the Web page is loaded, the script will automatically be compiled. Of course, to take advantage of ASP, you'll want to add features to the script that will run on the server, such as database access or other network-related work.