Microsoft ASP Training Courses: Active Server Pages Introduction

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Active Server Pages (ASP) (3 days)

We no longer run scheduled public courses on this topic. However, we can offer on-site training wherever this is required in the UK.

Suitable for web developers with a good knowledge of HTML and a basic familiarity with databases.

Fundamentals
	Overview and benefits Requirements for running ASP Internet Information Services Personal Web Server What are active server pages Server-side vs. client-side scripts Client-server processing VBScript vs. JScript

ASP in action
	The structure of ASP The ASP interpreter ASP built-in objects Specifying a scripting language Document-level declarations Function-level declarations

VBScript essentials
	VBScript and Visual Basic Declaring and using variables Adding comments to your code Using If statements Using the Select Case statement Arithmetic operators Logical operators String handling operators Do While loops While Wend loops For Each loops Using built-in functions

	Defining sub procedures Handling arguments Defining functions Returning a value Using arrays Manipulating array elements

Request and Response
	Mixing ASP and HTML Writing to the browser window Environmental variables Checking the user's browser Checking the referring page Getting information via forms Get and Post methods Using hidden fields Processing data from a form

Database access
	Data source names (DSNs) The Connection object The Recordset object The Fields collection Connecting to a database DSN-less connection Retrieving a recordset Paging through recordsets SQL Select... From...Where Order By Insert, Update and Delete Using INNER JOIN

Application and session
	Application and session objects The global.asa file Application and session events Lock and Unlock Using session variables

Scripting objects
	The FileSystem object Working with files and folders Working with drives The TextStream object Reading to a text file Writing to a text file The Dictionary object Dictionary methods and properties

Debugging and error handling
	Debugging techniques Response.Write Commenting out code Microsoft Script Debugger Working with breakpoints The Error object Types of error Error object properties Using On Error Resume Next Custom error messages Custom error pages