Web Application Guide

Welcome to the Active Server Pages Guide. This section provides detailed information about creating ASP pages and developing Web applications. It also describes the special event methods and interfaces available for creating components for access by ASP or ISAPI extensions. In this section you will find information on how to store your custom IIS configuration data and how you can use built-in objects to manipulate that data. Finally, the guide provides a library of script and program samples demonstrating a variety of ways to interact with IIS.

Important On a default installation of IIS, ASP and ISAPI processing are disabled to ensure that your IIS server is completely secure until you configure it. To enable ASP or ISAPI processing from IIS Manager, click Start, Run, type inetmgr in the Open text box, and click OK. From IIS Manager, right-click the local computer icon, and then click Security.

This section contains:

Getting Started with ASP: Provides an introduction to ASP concepts and a tutorial.

Building ASP Pages: Provides topics that demonstrate most of the key concepts for understanding the IIS programming platform, ranging from creating a simple page to creating transactional scripts.

Developing Web Applications: Outlines how to develop Web applications on IIS, how ASP fits into a Web application, and how other technologies fit into ASP.

Related Topics

• For information on more advanced topics, such as designing and building Web applications; see Web Application Architecture.
• For information on building your own ASP components, see Building COM Components for ASP.
• For sample scripts, see Samples.