IIS ASP Server Supporting VBScript

<< VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

This chapter provides introductions and tutorial examples on how IIS ASP server provides support to VBScript code embedded in HTML documents. Topics include configuring IIS to support ASP pages; ASP runtime 'request', 'response' and 'session' objects; ADO library supporting database server connections.

What is ASP (Active Server Pages)?

Static, Client-Side and Server-Side Scripting Pages

Setting Up IIS to Run ASP Pages - asp.dll

ASP Objects: Request, Response, Session and Application

ASP Object Example - Passing Values between Pages

Interacting with External Applications - ActiveX Data Object (ADO)

Conclusions:

• ASP (Active Server Pages) is a computing technology provided on IIS Web server support server-side scripting with VBScript language, or other scripting language.
• Linking the .asp extension to the asp.dll library is the key setting on IIS to turn on ASP support.
• ASP provides several runtime objects to allow VBScript code to interact with HTTP request, HTTP response, and application session.
• Additional libraries are also available to allow VBScript code to interact with external applications, like database applications, on the server side.

For more ASP tutorial notes, read my other book, ASP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes, at http://www.herongyang.com/asp/.