Active Server Pages (ASP) is the first server side web scripting language I used in my career. Probably I can say one thing that.. I used this in my academic project without knowing what web development is all about. I used ASP just to fulfil reporting needs in my project.
… after few months, when I started my professional career, it was very unfortunate that I forced to learn ASP. I knew that it is not just a language for web pages but it is powerful to build larger web applications.
ASP now known as Classic ASP was Microsoft's first server side scripting language for the dynamic web pages. Initially released with Personal Web Server (PWS) (for Windows 95, 98) and then as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS) (from Windows NT onwards).
ASP normally uses VBScript for scripting and pages uses .asp as extension. But later, it is possible to use any extension (.htm or .html) which will be re-written to .asp for every request to work..
ASP works with many built in objects Request, Response, Session...etc, which are having many methods and properties with data…
In the coming blogs, we are going to see the basic and then advanced usage of ASP..
As a first lesson, we can see how to write a simple script to print "I'm a Software Engineer".
Response.write "I'm a Software Engineer"
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All the ASP codes are enclosed with <% and %> by default.
Thank you for reading and please keep focus for more scripting...