What Are Active Server Pages from Microsoft?
Active Server Pages (ASP) is an application framework compromised of a server-side script engine and a collection of related components that run inside Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS). Web pages with embedded server-script are executed by the ASP engine to create dynamic Web content - content that changes based on the results of the script. - This dynamically generated content is presented to the end user as a Web page. Server-side scripts are often used to invoke components, Active Server Components, which serve as fundamental building blocks for ASP applications. One component, the Active Data Object (ADO), serves as a connector to backend databases supporting ODBC or OLE DB interfaces. Thus ASP technology provides a way to dynamically generate HTML through script executed on the server, which can access data stored in other systems, and build a Web page.
ASP technology ships as part of IIS. IIS 4.0 will ship as part of the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack. Also included in the Option Pack are the MS Transaction Server 2.0 (MTS) and MS Message Queue Server (MSMQ) 1.0, whose services can be accessed through ASPs. Development for ASP applications is script-based and can be done with any script editor or HTML editor. The most logical choice of tool for developers is Microsoft's Visual InterDev product. This product combines a script editor for logic creation, a scaled down version of Front Page for HTML creation, with a set of design-time ActiveX Controls (wizards) that generate script for specific purposes: for example, database connectivity using ADO. Visual InterDev is essentially Visual Basic for server-side application development.
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