Chapter 2. Active Server Pages:Server-Side Scripting

Chapter 1, provided a brief introduction to Active Server Pages and how they can be used to dynamically create HTML content. In this chapter, you will learn more about what's going on behind the scenes. First we'll review scripting, scripting hosts, and scripting languages. You will learn about how Active Server Pages (the actual ASP.DLL) work to interpret your server-side code to create HTML and how IIS then inserts that dynamically created HTML into the HTML stream.

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