Creating Active Server Pages (ASPs)

Creating ASP files is relatively easy. They are text files and you can use notepad to create or modify them, which is what a lot of people used to do when ASP first came out. Today you have a lot of choices with one example being the editor the comes with Visual Interdev 6.0. It includes color-coding for your files while you edit them, auto-complete features for commands or components it recognizes, and a toolbox to easily add tags to your pages. These are just a few of its features and is a good tool to use when developing ASPs.

With the editor to get you started, you will now look at VBScript, which is the scripting language that you use in Active Server Pages. By placing VBScript in your pages, you can ...

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