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What is ASP?
Writing ASP Scripts
Using Scripting Languages
Getting Information from a User
Sending Information to a User
Develoing ASP-Based Applications
ASP Main Page with Tutorial and 
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 Pages on that section are a summary of the complete specification of ASP at Microsoft website. 
If you want to learn details, please go to  http://www.aspsite.com/  to find more detailed instructions. 
 

What is ASP (Active Server Pages)?   

Microsoft Active Server Pages is a server-side scripting environment that we can use and run dynamic, interactive, high-performance web server applications. The program is running on the server side, so we don't need to worry whether a browser can process our pages; our server does all the processing for the page. 

To start using ASP, no advanced knowledge of HTML is necessary. ASP can be used with the following web servers: 

    Microsoft Internet Information Server v3.0 on WinNT Server 
    Microsoft Peer Web Services v3.0 on WinNT Workstation 
    Microsoft Personal Web Server on Win95
The Active Server Pages Model  

An ASP script begins to run when a browser requests an .asp fike from your web server. Your server then calls ASP, which reads through the requested file from top to bottom, executes any commands, and sends an HTML page to the browser: 

 

 
 
 
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