September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
26h 5m
English
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Comparing ASP.NET to ASP
Classic ASP is not event driven in the way that ASP.NET is. To see the difference, consider the following application: you want to open the NorthWind database, supplied with both Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access, and read through the Customers table. For each customer, you want to display the company name, customer ID, the name and title of the contact person, and the phone number. If the contact person is the owner, you want to display the title in red so that it is easy to see.
This example contains a great deal of complexity that will be covered in future chapters, including all the issues surrounding database access, but the fundamentals are straightforward. In classic ASP you would open a connection to the database, perform a query, and get back a RecordSet. You then iterate over the RecordSet, adding each record to an HTML table. If the current record’s ContactTitle column is “Owner,” you set the display to red. The code to accomplish this in classic ASP is shown in Example 3-3.
Example 3-3. Populating a table in classic ASP
<% Response.Expires=0 %> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE>List Log</TITLE> <STYLE> BODY,TD, TH {font-family:Verdana;font-size:8pt} .controls {font-family:Verdana;font-size:8pt} #owner {color:red} </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <% dim DBConn, rs set DBConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") DBConn.open ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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