Key Points - Programming ASP
Runs on the web server
Extremely flexible
Used for dynamic web pages

Microsoft developed Active Server Pages which is a server-side scripting technology for building web pages that are both dynamic and interactive..

An active server page itself is simply a text file script with the extension .asp containing HTML, and server-side script (runs on the server to create HTML)

The implementation behind it was created by Microsoft and designed as an open technology server-side framework, giving web developers the freedom to develop dynamic web sites using information accessed from the many COM-compliant data sources available to them.

The syntax and grammar of ASP is easy to comprehend, and yet powerful enough to support some interaction between page user and server allow web page access to databases and directory services incorporate and make use of high-powered COM components.

It's also server-based and so browser independent as well, leaving you only the problems of which cross-browser client-side script and stylesheet you want to use.

Also, you can all access the functionality of standard scripting languages (VBScript, JScript and JavaScript) and the scripting objects they expose.

Finally, you can incorporate any standard COM object (or active server component, as we call them) into a page. There are many third party companies who specialize in writing such components and if you do use them, then you have the added guarantee that they've been stress tested and fully debugged. On the other hand, if you need your component to do something unique, COM components are easy to develop in any established language.

• ASPIN
• ASP101
• 4 Guys From Rolla
• HotScripts ASp Page