ASP Tutorial and Downloads

ASP Tutorial and Downloads

ASP stands for Active Server Pages is a free microsofts server side script engine technology that allowes programmers to create dyamic web applications.

The program runs inside IIS (which stands for Internet Information Services) that comes as a free component with windows 2000 and is also a part of the windows NT 4.0 Option pack that can be downloaded for free from microsoft.

If you need to create a dynamic web application but at the same time concerned with simplicity and speed then you will find comfort using Active Server Pages. What else will you be able to achieve by using this application?

You wil be able to:

• Dynamically customize, edit, change and add any content of a Web page.

• Access any database and return the results to a browser.

• Customize Web pages to suite individual users.

• Respond to user queries submitted from HTML forms.

• Enhance security because ASP code can not be viewed from the browser.

If you want to run ASP on your own PC without an external server, then you must install Microsoft's Personal Web Server (PWS) or Internet Information Services (IIS) on your PC. On the other hand your visitors (the browser that displays the Active Server Pages file) do not need to support scripting at all because the scripts are executed on the server.

Tutorial.

Because Active Server Pages can be used to create anything from small personal websites to large enterprise class web applications, you may want to take a few tutorials to familiarize your self with it and see if you can use it to add value to you visitors experience on your site.

If you already have some basic understanding of HTML / XHTML and a scripting language like JavaScript or VBScript then a look at some of the free tutorial will be a much easier experience.

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