Introduction to Active Server Pages (3 days)

Introduction to ASP Training Overview

In this ASP training course, students will learn to build full-featured, database-driven Web sites. This introductory course for new programmers lays out the basics of server-side Web programming with an introduction to classic programming structures and good programming practices. Students will apply these programming skills to the development of a fully functional data-driven website with ASP written in VBScript. Students will harness the power of ASP to remember users with cookies and sessions, collect and process information users enter into an online form, and provide rich integration with databases to track clients, orders, and products using ASP and the enhanced functionality of ASP components.

Students will also learn to use sophisticated programming strategies and advanced features to add polish, speed and efficiency to Active Server Pages Web applications. In this ASP training course, students will work more thoroughly with ASP components for Web-to-database integration and use the server's file system to add features and functionality to a website. In addition, students will learn to work with other built-in and third-party components.

Introduction to ASP Training Course Goals

• Learn how ASP works
• Learn the basic syntax of ASP
• Learn to create dynamic interactive pages with ASP
• Learn to work with VBScript control structures
• Learn to use VBScript built-in functions
• Learn to work with ASP's built-in objects
• Learn to validate forms with ASP
• Learn to write functions and subroutines in ASP
• Learn to work with ASP Session, Application, and Cookie objects
• Learn to connect to a database with ASP
• Learn to send email with ASP

Introduction to ASP Training Course Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• HTML

Experience in the following areas would be beneficial.

• CSS
• Basic Programming

Introduction to ASP Training Course Outline

1. Active Server Pages: A Web Server-Side Technology
   1. Client-side vs. Server-side Web Technologies
   2. The Web's Client-Server Relationship
   3. Which Web Servers Support Active Server Pages?
2. Writing ASP Pages
   1. ASP Code in an HTML Context
   2. ASP Code is "Language Neutral"
   3. VBScript in ASP
   4. ASP Scriptlets
   5. VBScript Strings
   6. An Abbreviation for Response.Write
   7. Developing ASPs
   8. ASP Directives, Statements, Expressions and Comments
   9. VBScript Flexibility and Good Programming Practices
3. Processing Data from Online Forms
   1. The FORM Tag and its Attributes
   2. ASP Objects
   3. The Request and Response Objects
   4. Scalar Variables in ASP
   5. Customizing a Page for the Visitor
4. Conditional Constructs - IF Statements
   1. Comparison Operators in VBScript
   2. Adding an Else Clause
   3. Implementing an IF...ELSE...END IF Conditional
   4. Adding One or More ELSEIF Clauses
   5. The Logical AND and OR
   6. Combining the Form and its Processing Code in One ASP File
5. Working with Cookies
   1. Setting and Retrieving a Cookie
   2. Cookie Properties
   3. Expiring a Cookie
6. Maintaining State with the Session and Application Objects
   1. The Session Object
      1. Storing and Retrieving Values in the Session Object
      2. Session Properties and Methods
   2. The Application Object
7. Working with Components
   1. Instantiating Component Objects
   2. Sending Email with CDONTS
8. Writing to a Text File
   1. Writing to a Tab-Delimited Text File
9. Loop Structures in ASP
   1. For...Next Loops
   2. Populating Select Lists
   3. Collections in ASP
   4. For Each...Next Loops and Collections
10. ASP-to-Database Integration with ADO
    1. Database Commands with SQL
    2. The ADO Object Model
    3. Retrieving a Record from the Database with ASP
    4. The Connection Object's Execute Method
    5. Building an Interface for Updating Client Records
11. VBScript Subroutines and Functions
    1. Subroutines
    2. Functions
12. Drilling Down and the Query String
    1. Building the Query String into a Link
    2. Generating Drill Down Links Dynamically
    3. Building an Interface for Deleting a Record

Introduction to ASP Training Course Materials

Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the programming examples.

Introduction to ASP Training Technical Requirements

1. Operating System Options
   • Windows Vista
   • Windows XP with Service Pack 2
2. Internet Information Services
   • Instructions
3. Microsoft Access 2000 or later
4. Browser Options
   • Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
     • Download
   • Firefox
     • Download
5. Any Text or HTML Editor

Class Files for Introduction to ASP Training

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