ASP Programming & ASP development brief info
ASP (Eng Active Server Pages - "active server page") - technology developed by Microsoft, allowing easy to create applications for the World Wide Web. ASP is working on the platform of operating systems from Windows NT and web server for Microsoft IIS.
ASP Programming.
ASP is not a programming language - it is only pre-processing technology that allows you to connect software modules during the process of forming a web page. The relative popularity of ASP is based on the simplicity of scripting languages (VBScript or JScript) and the possibility of external COM-component.
ASP technology has been developed in the form of ASP.NET - new technology for building Web applications based on the platform of Microsoft. NET. ASP NET software is a popular alternative to PHP & Apache environment.
Syntax
A page on ASP - this is normal page HTML, with insets designated limiters <% and%>:
<%
Response.write "Hello World!"
%>
What is inside caps - this is the programme for VBScript, interpretability they request a page. VBScript is the language of the default, although possibly use and JScript:
<% @ Language = "JScript"%> <%
Response.Write ( "Hello World!");
%>
ASP Development Versions
ASP in its development has gone through several versions:
* ASP 1.0 (distributed with IIS 3.0) in December 1996.
* ASP 2.0 (distributed with IIS 4.0) in September 1997.
* ASP 3.0 (distributed with IIS 5.0) in November 2000.
