Introduction to ASP What Is ASP? Microsoft Active Server Pages
(ASP) is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to
create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications.
With ASP, you can combine HTML pages, script commands, and COM
components to create interactive Web pages or powerful Web-based
applications, which are easy to develop and modify. For example,
you can use the ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) components to add
database connectivity to your Web pages. How ASP Works When you
incorporate ASP into your Web site, here's what happens: Because
your script runs on the server, the Web server does all of the
processing and standard HTML pages can be generated and sent to
the browser. This means that your Web pages are limited only by
what your Web server supports. Internet Information Services
(IIS) To run ASP on your computer you will need the Internet
Information Services (IIS) component installed on your machine.
IIS is a web server application and set of feature extension
modules create