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 managing sessions.

Creating an ASP Page : Describes an ASP file and explains how to add script commands to a page.

Working with Scripting Languages : Explains how to set the primary language and how to use VBScript and JScript in server scripts.

Using Variables and Constants : Provides an introduction to using variables in ASP scripts and explains how to access constant definitions.

Interacting with Client-Side Scripts : Shows how to write server-side scripts that create and interact with client-side scripts.

Writing Procedures : Describes how to define procedures (functions and subroutines) and call them from server-side scripts.

Working with Collections : Describes how to access items in a built-in object's collections, including access by iterating through a collection.

Processing User Input : Explains how to collect and process information gathered from an HTML form.

Using Components and Objects : Explains how to create an instance of an object provided by a COM component, how to use the ASP built-in objects, and how to use the methods and properties of any object.

Setting Object Scope : Demonstrates the scope, or extent, of an object and describes how to create session and application scoped objects.

Sending Content to the Browser : Describes how to control the ways in which pages are sent to a browser.

Including Files : Explains how to use the #include statement to insert the contents of a file into an .asp file.

Managing Sessions : Describes how to preserve information about a user.

Accessing a Data Source : Explains how to use ASP and Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) to retrieve information from a database.

Understanding Transactions : Demonstrates how to run a script under a transaction context. Business and credit card applications often need to the ability to run scripts and components within transactions.