ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

  

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ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

Specialty Definition: ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

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Computing

Active Server Pages (ASP) A scripting environment for Microsoft Internet Information Server in which you can combine HTML, scripts and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic web pages. IIS 4.0 includes scripting engines for Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) and Microsoft JScript. ActiveX scripting engines for Perl and REXX are available through third-party developers. [URL?] (1999-12-02). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Active Server Pages

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's server-side technology for dynamically-generated web pages that is marketed as an adjunct to Internet Information Server (IIS). ASP has gone through four major iterations, ASP 1.0 (distributed with IIS 3.0), ASP 2.0 (distributed with IIS 4.0), ASP 3.0 (distributed with IIS 5.0) and ASP.NET (part of the Microsoft .NET platform). The pre-.NET versions are currently (2002) referred to as "classic" ASP.

In the latest classic ASP, ASP 3.0, there are six built-in objectss that are available to the programmer, Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server and Session. Each object corresponds to a group of frequently-used functionality useful for creating dynamic web pages.

Pages can be generated by mixing server-side scripting code (including database access) with HTML and client-side code. For example:

\r
<%if x=1 then%>\r
X equals one\r
<%else%>\r
X is not one\r
<%end if%>\r

This code results in the HTML

X equals one
when the server-side variable X=1.

Programming ASP websites is made easier by various built-in objects, such as a cookie-based session object that maintains variables from page to page.

In early 2002, standard ASP is being replaced by ASP.NET, which among other things, allows the replacement of in-HTML scripting with full-fledged support for .NET languages such as Visual Basic and C#. In-page scripting can still be used (and is fully supported), but now pages can use VS.NET and C# classes to generate pages instead of code in HTML pages, which can be viewed by any user.

According to news reports in 2002, the market share of ASP is in decline, with the free open source alternative PHP overtaking it in the server-side scripting market.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Active Server Pages."

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Crosswords: ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

Specialty definitions using "ACTIVE SERVER PAGES": Internet Information Server. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

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Books

  • Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0 (reference)

  • Professional Active Server Pages 3.0 (reference)

  • Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (reference)

  • Active Server Pages 3.0: Su Plano Visual Para Desarrollar Itios Web Interactivos (reference)

  • Building Professional Web Sites with the Right Tools: Build It With Visual Studio 6, FrontPage, Active Server Pages, VBScript, JavaScript, ADO, Paint Shop Pro, and Image Composer (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Modern Translation: ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

Language Translations for "ACTIVE SERVER PAGES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Portuguese

  

ASP, Páginas de Servidor Activo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-e-e-g-i-p-r-r-s-s-t-v-v"

-4 letters: preservatives.

-5 letters: asseverative, perseverates, preservative, prevaricates.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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