ASP
: Questions and Answers
Thank you for all your questions and letters
recently on various topics and issues. This time around I thought I
would answer some beginner questions from Jonathan Vu regarding ASP
(Active Server Pages). Jonathan is a client server developer who is
looking into ASP for the first time.
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Server Pages+ Part 5 - About the ASP+ Final Release
Obviously, the preview version of ASP+ and
the runtime framework that we are using is not absolutely complete.
However, it is classed as being 'feature complete', which means that
only minor changes and additions are expected between now and the
final release. In this last section, we'll examine some of the things
that you can expect to see in the final release that are not
available, or that aren't yet working properly.
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Server Pages+ Part 4 - Getting Started with ASP+
Having seen what ASP+ is all about, and some
details of the technologies that support it behind the scenes, it's
time to get your hands dirty and build some applications.
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Server Pages+ Part 3 - How is ASP+ Different from ASP?
Having seen in outline how ASP+ is now an
integral part of the operating system, we need to look at the other
aspect. How, and why, is ASP+ different to earlier version of ASP? And
just how different is it? Well, if you just want to run
existing pages and applications, you probably won't notice the
differences much at all. However, once you open up the ASP+ SDK or
Help files, you'll see a whole new vista of stuff that doesn't look
the least bit familiar.
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Server Pages+ Part 2 - The Next Generation Web Services Framework
So, COM+ provides a framework of operating
system services. But that's not the whole story. ASP+ is actually a
part of a brand new runtime framework that provides support for
all kinds of applications in Windows. The framework is a key part of
of Microsoft's Next Generation Web Services or NGWS.
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Server Pages+ Part 1 - Introduction to ASP+
Although it seems to have been around
forever, Active Server Pages is only some four-and-a-bit years
old. Since its inception in late 1996, it has grown rapidly to become
the major technique for server-side Web programming in the Windows
environment (and on some other platforms using other implementations
that accept the same or similar syntax, such as ChilliASP). But it
didn't come from nowhere - the foundations lie much further back than
that.
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