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Web Programming

Notes 2. What happens when you don’t have a web server installed and you try to view ASP pages
on your browser?
3. What is the Internet Information Server? How would you set it up?

4. How would you run ASP pages without installing IIS or PWS as your web server?
5. Explain the difference in the way when a browser visits a static web page and when the
browser requests an ASP page.

6. Explain how ASP differs from client side scripting technologies? Who can create dynamic
content with Active Server Pages?
7. What do I need to run Active Server Pages? What can Active Server Pages do for my
business?
8. What ActiveX Server Components are supported? On which platforms does Active Server
Pages run?
9. What data sources can my Web application integrate with? How does Active Server Pages
compare to CGI?

10. How does Active Server Pages compare to ISAPI applications? How does Active Server
Pages compare to PERL?
11. What does Active Server Pages do better than other Web application tools? How does
Active Server Pages compare to Netscape LiveWire?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. server 2. scripting languages
3. Web pages 4. HTML
5. Visual basic syntax 6. Hyperlink

7. IIS or PWS 8. Web server
9. Variable 10. Procedure
11. Condition 12. False

13. For Next 14. Parenthesis
15. position

7.12 Further Readings

Books A Keyton Weissinger, ASP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition [ILLUSTRATED]
(Paperback), O’Reilly Media; 2 edition (January 1, 2000)

Bob Reselman, Active Server Pages 3.0 by Example, Que Publishing
David Buser, Chris Ullman, Brian Francis, Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0,
Dave Sussman, John Wiley & Sons

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