16.1. An introduction to ASP and ASP.NET
16.1.1. What are ASP and ASP.NET?
This chapter is dedicated to Microsoft Active Server Page (ASP) and its applications on the Web. ASP is a server technology developed by Microsoft in as early as 1996 to provide CGI and many other functions in the Web server. Today, two ASP products are available, namely, ASP and ASP.NET.
Since they are both server technologies, all CGI applications discussed in the last two chapters can also be accomplished by them. What is ASP anyway?
Strictly speaking, ASP is not a language but rather an environment to develop something called an ASP page to be displayed on a browser. ASP pages usually have file extension .asp and can be written by a number of languages including ...
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